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Medecins Sans Frontieres

Ali's Had a Cough Since 2006

Dr. Raghu Venugopal | Posted 04.24.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Canada, Doctors Without Borders, Huffington Post Canada Impact, Hiv, Msf, Drug-Resistant TB, Tb, Chad, Tuberculosis, Aids, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Huffington Post Canada, Dr-Tb, Genxpert, Canada Impact News
Dr. Raghu Venugopal

Ali is 36 years old and has been coughing for a long time. He has been coughing since at least 2006. I was called because it was suspected that Ali had multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Médecins Sans Frontières is working with the Chadian Ministry of Health to aid patients like Ali.

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The Kindness of Strangers: Helping Women With VVF in Chad

Dr. Raghu Venugopal | Posted 04.21.2013 | Canada
Read More: Huffington Post Canada Impact, Doctors Without Borders, Humanitarian, Msf, Chad, Obstetric Fistula, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Medicine, Canada, Raghu Venugopal, Vvf, Canada News
Dr. Raghu Venugopal

Part of the experience of working with Doctors Without Borders is not just work but also taking a break. The work in the project site is seven days a week most of the time, but then after two months or so, we get a break in the capital city. I can't quite say my RnR was what I had intended.

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We Need to Help More Children Live to Be Adults

Dr. Raghu Venugopal | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Child Mortality, Doctors Without Borders, Humanitarian, Africa, Msf, Health, Tetanus, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Canada, Global Health, Chad, Dr. Raghu Venugopal, Canada Impact News
Dr. Raghu Venugopal

The majority of our patients live. But sometimes they do not. Child survival in Chad is a day-to-day struggle. Many survive thanks to low-cost interventions like vaccination, proper nutrition, antibiotics, rehydration, blood transfusion and oxygen. Sadly, these interventions are available to too few.

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Two Sisters and a Brother in Chad

Dr. Raghu Venugopal | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada
Read More: Doctors Without Borders, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Canada, Maternal Health, Chad, Msf, Health, Humanitarian Intervention, Canada News
Dr. Raghu Venugopal

Triplets (!) - two sisters and a brother were born a week ago. The sisters were born first and then came the brother. They do not yet have names, but ...

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A Canadian Life Spent on Couches Around the World

Samuel Getachew | Posted 08.30.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Travellers, Canada, Canada Day, International Borders, Globalisation, Couch Surfing, Community, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Canada Living News
Samuel Getachew

Maskarm K. Haile has called the world her "open university." She has traveled the world fulfilling a childhood dream of discovering something "that is bigger than life itself." She experienced the world by traveling as a "couch-surfer." She has discovered that most foreign strangers are no different from the neighbours that are often found in her diverse and multicultural Montreal neighborhood.

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Are Aid Groups Misleading Famine Aid Donors?

The Guardian | Tracy McVeigh | Posted 11.04.2011 | Canada
Read More: Charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Doctors Without Borders, Famine Donations, Somalia Militants, Famine, Kenya, Somalia Famine, Somalia, Famine Aid, Canada News

The head of an international medical charity has called on aid agencies to stop presenting a misleading picture of the famine in Somalia and admit tha...

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