Patients' stories

Topic	Date	Location
India: A young patient's story Fiona Fisher, a medical doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières in Manipur, India tells Vanlalsiam's story	21/04/2010	India
A beam of hope in Tawila Hospital Médecins Sans Frontières opens newly renovated hospital in North Darfur	08/04/2010	Sudan
One pill when the sun rises and one when it sets As the sun rises in Homa Bay, in western Kenya’s Nyanza Province, Pamela gets her two-year-old son Pascal dressed and ready for the day. At seven o’clock she sits with her husband Charles and father, mother and son all take their...	05/12/2008	Kenya
Listening to HIV positive children in Zimbabwe Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) helps care for over 7,000 HIV positive kids in Zimbabwe. Over 60% of those are already on ARV treatment.	28/10/2008	Zimbabwe
Patients' testimonies	22/07/2008	Ethiopia
Gaining acceptance for mental healthcare in Darfur Musa was chained naked to a tree stump for five years as an act of love. In Darfur, Sudan, as in many regions of the world where treatment for psychiatric illness is seldom understood, nor available, protecting a man from...	21/07/2008	Sudan
Sheleme’s Story Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are currently running outreach therapeutic programs in the district of Shashemene in the Oromiya region, Ethiopia. Patients affected by severe malnutrition are being screened by MSF medical...	13/07/2008	Ethiopia
Testimonies from Tal The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the border region between Bangladesh and Rakhine State in western Myanmar (formerly Burma). Their accounts of life in Myanmar include severe human rights abuses: restrictions on movement...	10/06/2008	Bangladesh
Surviving in the Chaos - Stories from Darfur A third of Darfuris live in displaced camps. This means about 2.5 million people.	27/05/2008	Sudan
"Eight months ago, I fell sick..." Omar is 39 years old. Suffering from multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis, he has been under the MSF team at Zougdidi since last July. Two months after starting his treatment, he was able to leave hospital to continue being...	18/03/2008	Georgia