Doctors Without Borders (MSF SnA)

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 Johannesburg, Gauteng

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Doctors Without Borders (MSF SnA)

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Disaster Relief & Emergency Services

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Johannesburg, South Africa

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We help people affected by conflict, epidemics and disaster by providing medical humanitarian assistance.

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More about Doctors Without Borders (MSF SnA)

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation committed to two objectives: providing medical assistance to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion, natural and man-made disasters; and speaking out about the plight of the populations assisted. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. Founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organisation, today MSF is present in more than 60 countries, where thousands of MSF doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, and other medical and non-medical professionals work together to bring essential health services to people caught in humanitarian crises. Services and activities include provision of emergency medicine, response to epidemics, war surgery, nutrition and vaccination campaigns, operating feeding centers for malnourished children, mental health care and support to ...

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A health worker prepares to swab a patient during a mass COVID-19 screening and testing ...

A health worker prepares to swab a patient during a mass COVID-19 screening and testing event held in Johannesburg, South Africa where MSF contact tracers assisted with training, monitoring and conducting tests.

From the community, for the community. To meet the staffing requirements of the ...

From the community, for the community. To meet the staffing requirements of the Khayelitsha Field Hospital, MSF hired over 50 people, including doctors, nurses and support staff. Many of the staff were Khayelitsha residents.

MSF staff examining Lita in the female ward at Nsanje District Hospital. Lita is a 20 ...

MSF staff examining Lita in the female ward at Nsanje District Hospital. Lita is a 20 year old lady that is HIV positive with history of challenges in adhering to treatment. Lita is someone who was once on ARV treatment then she had to disengage for two months before getting reengaged again through Nsanje District Hospital’s Rapid Assessment Unit (RAU). Lita over the course of her time at the hospital she has been showing signs and conditions like fever, swelling legs and abdominal distension. Page

Moses Luhanga, MSF Information Education and Communication Manager giving Manfred in TB ...

Moses Luhanga, MSF Information Education and Communication Manager giving Manfred in TB ward at Nsanje District Hospital a high five.

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