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Anna-Lena Tews is a midwife from Germany who has been living in Hamilton, New Zealand, for the past five years. She recently spent three months working in Batil refugee camp, South Sudan, on her first field placement with...
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17/06/2013 |
South Sudan |
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When I was nine-years-old, my family was forced to escape Sudan. That was in 1986. I still remember the fear that was around at the time. We heard that more and more people in the South were being persecuted and abused, even...
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24/05/2013 |
Sudan |
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Anita Coombs is a medical scientist from Perth. Here she writes about her work as a laboratory manager with Médecins Sans Frontières, in Arua, Uganda.
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13/03/2013 |
Uganda |
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Emma Campbell is a university lecturer from Canberra, Australia. She recently spent nine months working as the field administrator for an HIV and tuberculosis project in Nhlangano, Swaziland. Swaziland has the world’s highest...
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30/01/2013 |
Swaziland |
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Australian nurse Brett Adamson has just returned from six months in Kunduz, Afghanistan, where Médecins Sans Frontières runs a hospital providing emergency surgery to people with life-threatening injuries.
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14/11/2012 |
Afghanistan |
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I have spent almost 8 months in and around Hiloweyn working for Médecins Sans Frontières. At the onset of the crisis, I was responsible for the Health Centre and later the overall responsible for the projects in Liben. When I...
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25/05/2012 |
Ethiopia |
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Aisleen Glasby, a nurse from Wights Mountain, QLD, recently returned from Chiradzulu district in southern Malawi, where she worked in one of Médecins Sans Frontières’ largest HIV programs. This was her second field placement,...
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18/05/2012 |
Malawi |
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Robert Mungai Maina, from Kenya, has eight years of professional experience as a clinical officer. He has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in South Sudan for the past five months, and was assigned to the emergency team...
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12/12/2011 |
South Sudan |
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Jacqueline Boyd is a doctor from Darwin, who has just returned from her first field placement with Médecins Sans Frontières. Jacqueline was working in Gedaref, Sudan, where the organisation has been running a program treating the...
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25/11/2011 |
Sudan |
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In this interview conducted on 13th October 2011, Dr Gabriele Rossi, Médecins Sans Frontières emergency coordinator, describes a very serious situation in Sirte. On the night following the interview, six patients died at Ibn Sina...
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18/10/2011 |
Libya |