MSF UK | Médecins Sans Frontières
Gaza: MSF calls for immediate ceasefire at UN Security Council. MSF Secretary General delivered the speech and urged for unequivocal protection of medical facilities, staff, and patients. Sudan: MSF surgical team operates on 240 trauma patients in a week. In Khartoum, our expert staff are seeing complex and critical injuries as a result of the ...
Find a job | MSF UK
Find a role. Find out more about the jobs available with MSF and what it's like to have a career delivering medical aid where it's needed most. We rely on a strong network of professionals to deliver life-saving medical aid. Each year, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) sends people from the UK overseas to carry out ...
Who we are | MSF UK
MSF is an international humanitarian organisation providing medical care in more than 70 countries. Since 1971, we have been treating people caught in complex crises and chronic healthcare emergencies around the world. From our paediatric nurses to our off-road drivers, we are experts at working in fast-moving and highly-insecure environments.
Donate to MSF UK (Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without …
One-off donation. Monthly donation. Provides dressings kits to treat 42 war-wounded people. Provides antiretroviral drugs for a year for one person living with HIV/AIDS. Buys a basic surgical kit, enabling an MSF surgeon to carry out surgery. Over 12 months would cover the cost of a doctor in a project for a day, treating people in need.
Welcome: Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders …
Since 1971, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been ready to respond to humanitarian emergencies around the world. From treating war-wounded civilians in Yemen, to fighting deadly Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we are on the frontline of humanitarian healthcare care right now – including the ...
Non-communicable diseases | MSF UK
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are diseases that cannot be directly transmitted between people. Many are chronic diseases, meaning that they stay with people for life. These long-term illnesses are due to a combination of genetic vulnerabilities and environmental factors, such as poverty, living in polluted surroundings, unreliable access to ...
Fighting for treatment: A history of HIV care in South Africa
Jan 28, 2021 · A history of HIV care in South Africa. Twenty years ago, MSF was involved in a revolution in South Africa that would save thousands of lives and forever change the way the world saw and treated HIV. MSF staff, alongside activists and people dying from AIDS, used mass protests and legal action, first against profiteering pharmaceutical companies ...
Kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis) | MSF UK
Kala azar is one of the most dangerous neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), fatal in 95% of cases if left untreated. Also known as visceral leishmaniasis, kala azar is the most serious form of leishmaniasis and as of 2020 is endemic in 90 countries. The parasite is spread to humans by bites from infected female sandflies.
Emergency Surgery Response | MSF UK
Support our expert medical teams working in crisis zones around the world. Whether it's a child wounded in an airstrike or a mother facing a complicated labour, emergency surgery can save lives. But this care is complex. It requires highly trained staff, specialist equipment and sterile facilities. Shockingly, 70 percent of people on Earth have ...
Nurse - MSF UK
paediatrics. operating theatre. Valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Irish Nursing Board registration. Diploma in tropical nursing or relevant nursing experience in a tropical environment. Available for a minimum of nine to 12 months. Minimum of three months’ work or volunteering in low- and/or middle-income countries.