Letters from the field - Médecins Sans Frontières Australia - International Medical Humanitarian Aid

Topic	Date	Location
Nurse Anna Dicker is a nurse from Lennox Head in northern NSW. She is currently on her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières.	29/08/2007	Sudan
Midwife As I stepped off the plane in South Sudan, in the middle of nowhere, on a continent I had only seen as a tourist, I realised no amount of briefing, videos, books, nor courses could prepare me for the tour I was about to take....	09/04/2007	Sudan
Head of Mission, Sudan Australian Philip Humphris, from Victoria, is Médecins Sans Frontières head of mission in Sudan. He has returned from Darfur and, as the number of aid actors in Darfur continues to decrease because of the violence, explains what...	20/02/2007	Sudan
Epidemiologist Helen Cox is a Melbourne epidemiologist currently working with the Spanish section of Médecins Sans Frontières in Africa. Based in Nairobi, Helen is advising projects that respond to outbreaks of disease in the region. Her latest...	29/05/2006	Sudan
Doctor New Zealand doctor David Friend recently left Australia bound for South Sudan on his fourth mission with Médecins Sans Frontières. In this Letter Home he shares his thoughts on what it’s like to arrive in Africa and reflects on...	16/03/2006	Sudan
Nurse/Field Co-ordinator Matthew Cleary is a field co-ordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in El Geneina, West Darfur, a central base for Médecins Sans Frontières’s operations in the strife-torn region. After beginning operations here in September...	13/03/2006	Sudan
Logistician Stephen Green is a logistician from Sydney, on his second mission in Sudan with Médecins Sans Frontières. He is currently based in a town called Korma, in North Darfur, preparing for future distribution of food and non-food items...	05/08/2005	Sudan
Nurse Raewyn Turner is a theatre nurse from South Perth in Western Australia, currently on her second mission with Médecins Sans Frontières in Darfur, western Sudan. Raewyn is now based at Muhajariya, a provincial town in South Darfur,...	17/06/2005	Sudan
Nurse Margaret Bell, an Australian nurse from the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, has just returned from Darfur, in western Sudan, where 1.5 million displaced people have sought shelter and protection in regional centres, and where...	29/11/2004	Sudan
Doctor/Nurse Michael and Christine Shanahan are a husband and wife team working in the Kalma IDP [Internally Displaced Persons] Camp, South Darfur. Dr Michael Shanahan is a doctor who works as a physician at a Sydney hospital and Christine...	02/09/2004	Sudan