Anna joined Merlin in September 2010 and managed the emergency response for the Pakistan floods. Most recently she has returned from Liberia, where Merlin has been delivering urgent medical aid and...
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Anna joined Merlin in September 2010 and managed the emergency response for the Pakistan floods. Most recently she has returned from Liberia, where Merlin has been delivering urgent medical aid and...
An all-female delegation from the UK is to travel to Liberia today to look at ways of tackling the country's appalling rate of maternal mortality. Professor Parveen Kumar, President of the Royal...
Meet Pauline, a Nurse Counsellor at a Merlin-supported youth centre in Monrovia, Liberia. On World AIDS Day, we chat with Pauline as she carries out her work with young people at risk of HIV. Pauline...
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Merlin's field staff welcome the announcement on health funding at the UN General Assembly this week as a step in the right direction, but argues that much more needs to be done to ensure access to...
"So it's started," writes Helen Sole, as her family leave the comfort of Connecticut for Liberia on a journey to the front line of global health. In the company of her husband Peter, who is a trustee...
The first of December will be a day that many Liberian mothers will long remember. Here in the town of Zwedru, south-eastern Liberia, a midwifery training school has just opened. The school, run...
Starting up as fragile peace is restored In 1997, seven years of civil war in Liberia came to an end when former faction leader Charles Taylor won a landslide victory in the presidential elections. ...
Ajuah Eshun could barely walk when she was admitted to J.J. Dossen Hospital in Harper, Liberia. She had been suffering from a large, painful ulcer on her leg. Routine tests also revealed that she was...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is to officially open two hospital wings constructed and supported by British medical aid agency Merlin. Mrs Johnson-Sirleaf will cut the ribbon at the...
Two years ago, Irene Smith was caught up in crossfire when fighting erupted between government and rebel forces in the Liberian town of Buchanan. As she ran for shelter, Irene was struck in the back...
Merlin, the UK-based international medical relief charity is the first NGO to provide emergency medical services in rebel-held Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County and Greenville, Sinoe County, in Liberia...
Monrovia, Liberia, 8th September 2003 (Merlin) - At least 15 cases of cholera have been confirmed in Buchanan, Monrovia, said the international medical relief charity, Merlin, today. In response to...
London (Merlin), 8 August 2003 - 38 tonnes of emergency aid will depart for Monrovia tonight, on a flight funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) for Merlin, the UK-based...
Monrovia, Liberia, 21 July 2003 (Merlin) Over the last two days, rebels have bombarded civilian areas in Monrovia with shells and mortars, killing and severely injuring hundreds of people. Mortar...
Monrovia, Liberia, 26th June (Merlin) Fighting continues today in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, with reports of mounting civilian casualties and large-scale population movement, following the...
Monrovia, Liberia (Merlin) - 200,000 internally displaced people (IDP) are now sheltering in makeshift camps in Monrovia and hundreds more continue to flood in daily to receive emergency medical...
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Combating Lassa Fever Lassa fever is endemic to West Africa, affecting up to 300,000 people a year. This is a viral disease spread to humans either through direct contact with rats or if water or...
At a Glance Situation Seven years of civil war have devastated Liberia's infrastructure Rebuilding the country's health services is key so that current and future needs are met Life-threatening...
MERLIN can confirm that the aid workers abducted from Kolahun, Lofa County, are now at the Guinean border. Although we believe they are still being held captive, we are hopeful that they will be...
The three Brits abducted in Liberia while working for medical aid agency MERLIN have been freed and are safely in neighbouring Guinea. MERLIN today confirmed that Sara Nam, David Heed and Mike Roe...