Interviews
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07 February 2012
Lebanon: Healing those deeply affected
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been providing mental healthcare in two refugee camps in Lebanon for the past three years, both to Palestinian refugees and to vulnerable Lebanese in the area. Now MSF has opened a new project in northern Lebanon, following the arrival of 4,500 Syrians who have fled the unrest in their country. Bruno Jochum, General Director of MSF, is just back from...
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13 December 2011
Robert Mungai Maina, from Kenya, has eight years of professional experience as a clinical officer. He has worked with MSF in South Sudan for the past five months, and was assigned to the emergency team working in the Doro refugee camp last week.
Some of the thousands of refugees in Doro, South Sudan © Jean-Marc Jacobs
“Many of the patients that we see in our clinic have respiratory diseases. This is because most of...
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13 December 2011
Refugees in Doro, South Sudan. © Jean-Marc Jacobs
This 33-year-old man was interviewed in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan on December 7, 2011. He was once a community health worker with an NGO in Blue Nile State, but has since spent 10 years in a refugee camp in Ethiopia during Sudan's civil war. He returned home in 2005, but has now been forced to register as a refugee once again.
“The...
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12 December 2011
Interview with Olivier Aubry, MSF head of mission in the Central African Republic
What is the situation today in Central Africa following the signing of the peace accords and the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration process that followed?
Since July 2011, nearly all of the armed opposition groups have signed the peace accords. However, some remain active—particularly an armed Chadian group based in the north of the country. Led by Abdel-Kader Baba...
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30 November 2011
In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to support treatment programmes because of a catastrophic drop in donor funding.
MSF international president, Dr Unni Karunakara
The Global Fund, financed largely by governments, was set up ten years ago as a ‘war chest’...
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17 October 2011
In this interview conducted on 13th October 2011, Dr Gabriele Rossi, MSF emergency coordinator, describes a very serious situation in Sirte. On the night following the interview, six patients died at Ibn Sina hospital because they could not be operated on. In the north part of town, thousands of civilians remain completely trapped by the fighting.
MSF is working across Libya. These MSF surgeons are at work in the Abbad Hospital,...
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14 September 2011
In Liben, Southern Ethiopia, MSF is providing medical care in the six camps where 119,000 refugees are gathered. More than 10,000 children are enrolled in nutritional programmes.
Karliene Kleijer, until recently MSF emergency project coordinator in Liben, Ethiopia. Photo: MSF
Karliene Kleijer, MSF emergency field coordinator in Liben, spoke to us upon her return from the field.
How was it to set up operations in...
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25 August 2011
Voice from the Field: Tripoli, Libya
A three-person Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team is currently in Tripoli with supplies and is starting to support facilities that are already overwhelmed with patients wounded in the fighting currently taking place in the Libyan capital. MSF has also dispatched teams to Zlitan, east of Tripoli, and Al Zawiyah, to the west, to support hospitals faced with an influx of wounded. Speaking from...
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19 August 2011
David Michalski, emergency coordinator, and Said Hassan, field coordinator, recently left Mogadishu after launching the MSF activities there. In this interview they describe the humanitarian situation and the first steps of MSF’s response in the capital.
David Michalski who is based in Dubai, is an MSF coordinator of operations for Ethiopia, Somalia, Bahrain and Somaliland. Said Hassan is a Kenyan-Somali who started working with MSF in 2006 and is now back in Egypt...
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19 August 2011
Somalia has been in a state of war for 20 years. Today, forces of the Transitional Federal Government supported by the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) are fighting with Al-Shabaab armed group in Mogadishu and other parts of the country. Safe access for international NGOs remains difficult, impeding aid operations. Two MSF projects recently had to suspend activities, although we have just been able to reopen one of them to respond to the emergency. A dozen...
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