Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia

E-newsletter Issue 40 | November 2005

INTERVIEW WITH Australian Nick Lawson, MSF HEAD OF MISSION

Nicholas Lawson, originally from Perth, has worked for MSF for nine years and is currently head of mission based at a town called Manshera, 70 kilometres north of the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. Read and listen to this interview with him as he talks about the efforts MSF is making to treat the survivors...» Read the interview

	From the field – The Road’s End in Kashmir Melbourne doctor, Catherine Deacon is in Indian-administered Kashmir working with the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) earthquake response. Here she writes about the current humanitarian situation close to the ‘line of control’ ...» Read more
	Cote d'Ivoire in crisis: the challenges for MSF The West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire is bracing itself for further civil unrest following the postponement of presidential elections on Sunday 30 October. Here Australian volunteer, Lauren Cooney, Medical Coordinator for MSF-Holland in Côte d'Ivoire, depicts a country in political turmoil...» Read more
	Treating DRC’s victims of sexual violence During the past year, the north-eastern province of Ituri has been the epicentre of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Australian-based doctor, Yves Desjacques, has recently returned from Bunia, the provincial capital of Ituri. Here he talks about his work at the Bon Marché hospital where MSF handles 150 – 250 consultations a day – many of them for Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV)... » Read more

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