Letters from the field

Topic	Date	Location
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
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
Nurse In January 2006 Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson was elected Liberian President and in doing so became Africa's first elected woman head of state. One of the biggest challenges ahead is healthcare, as Sydney nurse and Médecins Sans...	26/04/2006	Liberia
Nurse Melbourne nurse Anthony Flynn writes from Oromiya, the largest region in Ethiopia, where he has been involved in an emergency measles vaccination campaign. This is Anthony’s second mission with Médecins Sans Frontières. His first...	14/04/2008	Ethiopia
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
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
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
Nurse For the past nine months, Lisa Errol, a midwife from New Zealand, has been treating pregnant women at the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in a camp for internally displaced people in the Liberian town of Salala in Bong county....	07/02/2006	Liberia
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 Since January 2005, Marg Ward, a nurse from Ballina, has been working with street kids in the Baoji Children’s Centre in Shaanxi Province. Here Margaret writes about this unique project that helps street children rehabilitate,...	24/05/2005	China