Letters from the field

Topic	Date	Location
Nurse Shelley Wright is a nurse from Temuka, New Zealand, and is currently on her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières in northern Uganda. Here Shelley writes about her first impressions working with Médecins Sans Frontières’s...	06/05/2007	Uganda
Epidemiologist Jane Greig is an epidemiologist from Victoria, currently on her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières. Jane is working as Epidemiologist & Coordinator of Operational Research for Médecins Sans Frontières in Lagos, Nigeria,...	22/04/2007	Nigeria
Nurse Australian nurse Judy Coram, from Victoria, wrote this letter describing the events of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day as celebrated in the Médecins Sans Frontières-run ‘TB village’ in the refugee camp MaeLa, about an hours drive...	17/04/2007	Myanmar (Burma), Thailand
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
Doctor A New Zealand medical doctor from Christchurch, Emily Gill, writes about her impressions of her first month on mission in the west of Côte d’Ivoire, where Médecins Sans Frontières has a primary health care clinic and a...	21/02/2007	Ivory Coast
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
Logistician Euan Beamont is a logistician from Geraldton, Western Australia, who has completed two missions with Médecins Sans Frontières. Here Euan writes about his most recent Médecins Sans Frontières project from January to August 2006....	26/01/2007	Thailand
Nurse Sydney nurse Matthew Cleary, writes from Tibiri in southern Niger about his new post as field coordinator for a large and expanded nutritional rehabilitation project, via outpatient management. Matthew has completed two previous...	23/11/2006	Niger
Doctor Liberia is currently in a rebuilding phase following a 14-year civil war that ended in 2003. The war destroyed 95% of health facilities, and today Médecins Sans Frontières runs eight hospitals throughout Liberia. Australian...	09/11/2006	Liberia
Doctor Stephanie Jones is a medical doctor from New Zealand, who is now based in Monbulk, Victoria. She has been in Rukumkot, in the Rukum district of Nepal, since early June working on a Primary Health Project. This is Stephanie's...	18/10/2006	Nepal