Stories From Patients & Staff

Dr Khairil Musa, an intensive care doctor from Sydney, reflects on his time working with MSF in Aden, Yemen

Aucklander Vanessa Cramond’s work with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has taken her from Zimbabwe, to Sudan, Syria and the Amsterdam Emergency Support Desk over more than 12 years.

Mohammad Hashim was the first patient at MSF’s newly opened COVID-19 treatment centre in Gazer Gah hospital in Herat, western Afghanistan.

With the COVID-19 virus only recently emerging, there is limited evidence to tell the story of how women and girls are affected. But what is already known is the life-threatening impact on women and girls when essential sexual and reproductive health services are compromised or denied during a la