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CURRENT MSF FIELD BLOGS
December 11th, 2011 by MSF Field BlogTB DOC IN TAJIKISTAN
Kartik Chandaria is an MSF doctor working in Tajikistan, specialising in treating children with tuberculosis Read his blog
A DOCTOR IN EASTERN DRC (CONGO)
Jennifer Turnbull is a pediatric emergency physician currently working for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders in Mweso, in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read her blog
MSF PHOTO BLOG
Check out our most popular blog, the “MSF Photo Blog”, for images from MSF’s field projects around the world. Click on the photos to open a larger image. Go to the photo blog
A VIEW FROM ‘PARADISE’
Ferry Schippers is a veteran MSF field project coordinator working in the Hauts Plateaux, in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. Read his blog
MY NEW FRIEND ROSS
(REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN)
Emmett Kearney is an MSF water and sanitation logistician from Chicago. He obtained his MSc at WEDC-Loughborough University, studying water and environmental management for developing countries. He began work for MSF in Zambia, on a cholera prevention project after working for two years on the Thai-Burma border. Read his blog
POSITIVE LIVING
Paul Foreman is head of mission for MSF in Zimbabwe, where MSF treats over 34,000 HIV positive patients. This is Paul’s seventh mission for MSF following a four-year break in which he was a freelance business development advisor for small and medium-sized charities and social enterprises. Read his blog
FOLLOWING CHRISTINA
Emily, who previously blogged her experiences working for MSF in Liberia, is back on mission in Zambia. In here new blog, Following Christina, she writes about a patient at the MSF clinic who has recently being diagnosed as HIV positive. Read her blog
TB&ME
TB&ME is a blogging project launched by MSF to provide a platform for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients to share their experiences of being treated for this neglected disease. As MSF calls for better treatments and services for TB sufferers, TB&ME allows the patients themselves show where the priorities are. Read the TB&ME blogs
BROWN BREAD REVOLUTIONARY
This is Trish Newport’s fourth mission for MSF and her second time in Niger. When not on mission, she lives and works as a nurse in the Yukon, Canada. Read her blog
SMILES AFTER STARVATION
Elisabeth Canisius is a Pediatrician currently working for MSF in Zinder, in Southeastern Niger. She has experience working overseas in Haiti, Uganda and Rwanda. This is her first mission with MSF. Read her blog
Previous blogs
James Maskalyk is an emergency physician and, when not in the field, lives and works in Toronto, Canada. His first mission with MSF was in Abyei, in a small hospital on the still contested border between North and South Sudan, and his blog from there became a book Six Months in Sudan. He is in the field again, working and living in a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, home to 300,000 displaced Somali people.
Grant and Chantelle are recently married and are unconventionally “honeymooning” in Africa with MSF before “settling down” and getting “real jobs” back home in Edmonton, Canada. Grant is a farm kid turned chemical engineer turned humanitarian worker, with 4 MSF missions under his belt; Chantelle is a ballerina turned environmental engineer turned humanitarian worker, with one MSF mission completed and previous development work experience. Read their blog
Karen writes from Goronyo, Nigeria, where she is on her first mission with MSF. Before leaving, Karen was really excited about being able to focus on PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) as she has been working in the HIV field for the past years, both in clinical care and research.
Maeve Lalor works as an Epidemiologist for the Nukus Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) project in Uzbekistan. She is from Co. Dublin and before working for MSF was a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she completed her PhD on Population Differences in Immune Responses to BCG vaccination. This is her first assignment with MSF.
Kiran Jobanputra has previously worked as a doctor with MSF in Somalia, Kenya and Niger. He wrote his blog, “From Bunia”, as Project Coordinator at MSF’s Bon Marché field hospital in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
CHRIS HOUSTON IS STILL OUT OF THE OFFICE
After a short break to recover from his work in Papua New Guinea, Chris Houston embarks on a new assignment as logistician with MSF’s Nigeria Emergency Response Unit.
Nurse Jess Cosby was awarded the Diploma in Tropical Nursing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has worked in Botswana with people living with HIV/AIDS. This is her first mission with MSF based in Zimbabwe.
Dr. Dieudonné Kongolo est congolais et il travaille comme médecin et humanitaire pour MSF depuis près de sept ans. Maintenant, il travaille come chef d’équipe de MSF et écrit “Bienvenue à Bendera”, dans le nord-est du Katanga en République démocratique du Congo (RDC).
Sandy Althomsons, MSF epidemiologist blogged about “TB in Uzbekistan” from Nukus’ project for multi-drug resistent tuberculosis. Sandy comes from the United States where she works for the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.
This emergency “Haiti Earthquake” blog was co-written by various members of MSF’s emergency team in Haiti. Includes liason Isabelle Jeanson, nurses Sherri Grady, Marie-Michèle Houle, Louise Johnston, and Dr. Wendy Lai. Dr. Lai is on her third MSF field mission, her second mission was based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she wrote the compelling “A Labour of Love” blog.
Previously an MSF logistician, Grant Assenheimer is back, now as a project coordinator, writing “Pré Avis in the Congo” from Dubié, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Logistician, Fenna Snater, wrote “In Africa” from an HIV treatment project outside of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Harriet Cochrane was a project coordinator for MSF, writing from the Democratic Republic of Congo in “Medicine by Motorbike”.
Emily Bell closes off her popular blog, “Welcome to Bravo Hotel: Stories from Monrovia” from Liberia. Emily is from Oxford, UK, and worked as a Field Coordinator in MSF’s project supporting the Benson Hospital in Monrovia.
MSF at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18 – 23, 2010
Check out the MSF HIV “footblog” from South Africa, “MSF Extra-Time”, during the 2010 FIFA World Cup!
