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Nathan Ford and Philipp du Cros: Gathering the evidence to improve healthcare in developing countries

October 16, 2012

A couple of sample dilemmas faced recently in the clinical programmes of the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “This HIV positive woman in her first trimester of pregnancy […]

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Sarah Venis: Going digital – join in the online Médecins Sans Frontières scientific day

May 23, 2012

Why does a medical humanitarian organisation like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hold a yearly scientific conference? The common image of MSF has more in common with Angelina Jolie’s film efforts […]

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Grania Brigden: Time to make TB the enemy that can’t hide

April 20, 2012

As the Kony 2012 campaign continues to sear the image of Joseph Kony—head of the Ugandan guerilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army— into the world’s consciousness, it’s worth remembering that […]

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Greg Elder: Hippocrates: a casualty of the war in Syria

February 14, 2012

A doctor’s protest Principles Four months ago en route to work I read an article about how the blood transfusion services in Syria had been taken over by the Ministry […]

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Stephen Ginn: Living in emergency

September 13, 2011

The RSM’s Global health and human rights film club launched on 8 September 2011 with a screening of director Mark Hopkins’ Living in Emergency. Filmed in the war zones of […]

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Philipp du Cros: The personal experiences of patients living with MDR-TB

July 12, 2011

What goes through a person’s mind when they are told they have multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and face at least eight months of injections and nearly two years of medication? […]

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Tejshri Shah on scrapping healthcare fees in developing countries

September 24, 2009

A group of doctors warned last week that if climate change is not effectively tackled we all face a health catastrophe. What they did not say is that the catastrophe […]

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David Payne on charity knitting

March 3, 2009

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is a Canadian knitter who challenges people to think long and hard before they buy something over the course of a week. At the end of the week, […]

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A day in the life of an MSF doctor

February 3, 2009

This evening I am pretty tired again. January and December tend to be the busiest months for the Emergency Unit and there have been a higher percentage than normal of […]

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Tejshri Shah on the BMJ/MSF appeal

December 23, 2008

My name is Tejshri Shah and I am the head of the medical unit of Médecins Sans Frontières UK, the Manson Unit. When asked to be a guest blogger for […]

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