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Welcome to Everyday Emergency, bringing you true stories from people on the frontline of humanitarian emergencies across the world. Everyday Emergency is the official Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) podcast.
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Climate Crisis = Health Crisis: A COP26 debrief with MSF from 2021-12-08T18:14:45
In this episode of Everyday Emergency, we'll listen in on a discussion about COP26, why MSF was a part of it, and what the MSF delegates attending the summit learned from their participation.
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South Sudan: Voices from Bentiu from 2021-08-24T16:59:14
On 9 July 2021, the Republic of South Sudan marked its 10th birthday. This significant milestone is also marred by the bloody legacy of its first decade, including a five-year civil war.
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Diabetes: An unseen humanitarian emergency from 2021-04-28T10:33:58
It’s 100 years since the discovery of insulin, the life-saving drug for people living with diabetes.
But today, more than half of those who need this marvellous medicine still can’t access...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - Mechanisms and expectations from 2021-01-28T11:59:14
Episode 5: Mechanisms and expectations
Duration: 48 mins
Justice is slow to come and still many of the nations involved are not taking responsibility for their country’s actions in the...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - Peace agreement vs justice from 2021-01-28T11:59:03
Episode 4: Peace agreement vs justice
Duration: 37 mins
Following the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, 40,000 people are scattered around eastern Bosnia. Thousands are in a refugee cam...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - The fall of Srebrenica from 2021-01-28T11:58:51
Episode 3: The fall of Srebrenica
Duration: 40 mins
July 1995 - the fall of Srebrenica is one of the toughest chapters of the Bosnian war. It only took 10 days for the Muslim enclave ...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - Prison doctors from 2021-01-28T11:58:36
Episode 2: Prison doctors
Duration: 37 mins
MSF has been working in the enclave for over 2 years now and has repeatedly informed the media about the difficulties it’s been having tryin...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - Entering the enclave from 2021-01-28T11:58:22
Episode 1: Entering the enclave
Duration: 27 mins
The Muslim population trapped inside Srebrenica is living under constant shelling since the start of the war in Bosnia in 1992. Even a...
COVID-19: Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Midst of a Pandemic from 2020-07-07T15:56:57
Our producer Jess Brown looks into the potentially catastrophic secondary impacts of COVID-19 on the lives and health of women and girls.
Sexual and reproductive health services are diffic...
INSIDE YEMEN: Prologue from 2020-04-02T16:09:23
In this episode of “Inside Yemen”, Agnes and Natalie take you to Mocha on the banks of the Red Sea – a strategic crossroads just two hours from the front line where landmines are wreaking havoc amo...
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INSIDE YEMEN #1: The noise of bombs from 2020-04-02T00:00
In episode 1 of “Inside Yemen”, you are plunged straight into the heart of Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. Natalie tells you about her journey to Saada in the mountains in the north of the country. This is...
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INSIDE YEMEN #2: Under the sand, landmines from 2020-04-02T00:00
Bernard knows Yemen well, especially his operating theatre. Let’s go to the emergency department of an MSF hospital trapped between the frontlines south of Hodeidah and surrounded by mine fields.
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INSIDE YEMEN #3: Too far, too late from 2020-04-02T00:00
It is Ghassan’s turn to take you deep into Yemen to discover the cholera epidemic that broke out across the country in 2016 and 2017, amidst controversy and media manipulation.
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INSIDE YEMEN #4: Everyday violence from 2020-04-02T00:00
A grenade ready to explode, armed militia in a pick-up, Kalashnikovs everywhere. Ghassan and Thierry tell you about the everyday violence in Aden, the southern port where all semblance of normality...
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INSIDE YEMEN: Epilogue from 2020-04-02T00:00
Is Yemen’s a hopeless war? And what should be done when we can “only” care for people we know nothing about? In this last episode of “Inside Yemen”, Natalie takes you back to the north of the count...
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Environmental Emergencies: Climate Crises and Humanitarian Response from 2020-01-31T15:00:30
In this episode of Everyday Emergency, Nick Owen hears from MSF staff who have been working with some of the populations most vulnerable to changing weather patterns and environmental degredation.<...
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2010 - 2019: Reflections from 2019-12-31T12:37:08
In this episode of Everyday Emergency, host Nick Owen takes you through some of the most pivotal MSF moments from the past decade, with firsthand accounts from our staff on the ground.
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Colombia: Venezuelan Women's Struggle for Healthcare from 2019-11-30T14:15:16
In this episode of Everyday Emergency we hear about the lived experience of Venezuelan women bearing the brunt of their country's healthcare crisis and the difficulties they continue to face in Col...
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Yemen: "A Devastating, Unjust Violence" from 2019-05-23T16:45:22
Yemen is in the grip of war. It is also one of the poorest countries in the world.
British anaesthetist Dr Elma Wong has recently returned from her fourth assignment working in the count...
The Refugees Who Fled a Massacre from 2018-12-06T13:26:34
In this episode of Everyday Emergency, we take a look at one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. The Rohingya are a group of people who have lived for centuries in Myanmar. Due to their...
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Patching Blast Injuries in the Ruins of Raqqa from 2018-04-18T16:14:25
In this episode of Everyday Emergency, we hear from three MSF medics who have been working in the Syrian city of Raqqa. A former stronghold of the so-called Islamic State, Raqqa is littered with im...
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S2 E8: The Hidden Costs of War from 2017-07-14T15:43:51
Nina Rajani, a doctor from London, has just returned from Iraq. On this week's episode, Nina explains what it took to treat people caught between the vicious spiral of violent conflict and poor hea...
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S2 E7: From Conflict Zones to Curtain Shops from 2017-06-23T17:27:47
In the latest episode of our Everyday Emergency podcast, we speak to Emily Gilbert. An MSF project coordinator from London, Emily has spent her entire career working in conflict zones.
Whe...
S2 E6: How We Rescued 560 People on the Mediterranean from 2017-06-01T16:10:19
"You’ve got to be in a really, really awful situation to think ‘yes, I’m going to put my nine-month old child onto this rubber boat, because that’s the best option to me at the moment’."
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S2 E5: A Return to the Disaster in Idomeni from 2017-05-18T12:20:30
Our regular host, Nick Owen, is somewhere in the middle of the Mediterranean sea this week. He's on board the Aquarius doing search and rescue with Dr Connor Kenny. The pair are going to be capturi...
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S2 E4: I Searched 70 Refugee Camps to Find My Mother from 2017-05-04T18:56:53
On this week's episode of our Everyday Emergency podcast, we meet Besh, a Kurdish asylum seeker living in London, UK. Besh and his family lived peacefully in a village just outside Mosul, raising l...
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S2 E3: "The Letter That Changed Me" from 2017-04-20T14:12:49
"I wasn't prepared. It left a scar. It was the first time I was exposed to so much avoidable death."
On this week's episode of our Everyday Emergency podcast, we meet Javid Abdelmoneim, an...
S2 E2: "Good luck, my sister" from 2017-04-06T15:07:48
* Please be advised that this episode deals with sensitive issues relating to sexual violence and may be unsuitable for some listeners.
In our latest episode of Everday Emergency, we meet...
S2 E1: "My Fight Isn't Over" | World TB Day 2017 from 2017-03-24T16:19
Elizabeth Wangeci's story is a remarkable one. Against the odds, Elizabeth, from Nairobi, was the first person to survive one of the deadliest forms of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Kenya. In the ...
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The Kunduz Hospital Attack: A Doctor's Story from 2016-10-03T09:55:20
The 3rd of October will be remembered as one of the darkest days in MSF's history. On this day in 2015, US airstrikes killed 42 people and destroyed the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. ...
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S1 E10: The Disaster in Idomeni from 2016-08-19T14:53:05
In our tenth and final edition of this series, we follow on from where our Mediterranean search and rescue episode left off. We speak to Conor Kenny, a doctor who has been caring for refugees in G...
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S1 E9: I Had to Turn People Away from the World's Largest Ebola Centre from 2016-08-05T12:45:56
Working in five countries in the last two years, from fighting cholera in South Sudan to helping migrants and refugees in Greece, it's fair to say Pierre Trbovic has seen his fair share of Médecins...
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S1 E8: A Patient as Stubborn as Me from 2016-07-22T00:00
Earlier this year, paediatric nurse Johanna Bosowski embarked on her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to Agok, in northern South Sudan.
Working on ...
S1 E7: "All I Need is a Metre of Rope" from 2016-07-08T10:22:13
Despite ranking alongside HIV as the leading cause of death by infectious disease worldwide, the global response to TB has been found wanting.
Because the drugs used in standard treatment ...
S1 E6: Precious Baby from 2016-06-24T14:17:13
In our sixth episode we meet US gynaecologist Veronica Ades who has returned from her third MSF mission.
In Precious Baby, Veronica describes the precarious situation for expecting mothers...
S1 E5: "One day, 52 Senseless Deaths" from 2016-06-10T09:26:22
In our fifth episode we meet Canadian doctor Simon Bryant who last year spent his summer on MSF and MOAS's search and rescue ship, the Phoenix.
In 'One day, 52 senseless deaths', Simon de...
S1 E4: The Darkest Hour from 2016-05-27T16:50:19
In our fourth episode we meet British doctor Emily Wise who, in 2013, travelled to Uzbekistan - a country with particularly high drug-resistant tuberculosis rates.
In 'The Darkest Hour', E...
S1 E3: Clémentine from 2016-05-13T00:00
In this episode we meet Sandra Smiley, a Canadian communications officer who spent 2015 with MSF in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Sandra travelled across th...
S1 E2: Saving Lives Amid Chaos from 2016-04-29T00:00
In this episode we meet Scottish nurse Michael Shek, from Dumfries.
Michael has recently returned from his second mission in South Sudan, the world's youngest country in the midst of a civ...
S1 E1: The First 24 Hour Shift from 2016-04-15T00:00
Benjamin Black, an obstetrics doctor from London, UK, was on his first ever shift for Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone as Ebola swept through the country. When a pregnant woman arrived at th...
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