Patients' stories

Topic	Date	Location
Voices from Dadaab We gathered the stories of recent refugees to arrive at Dadaab refugee camps from Somalia.	15/06/2011	Kenya, Somalia
From Libya to Agadez: the difficult return Habiba Ismael has dark rings under her eyes and looks tired. She has agreed to open the door of her house in the neighbourhood of Dagamanete in Agadez, Niger, to tell Médecins Sans Frontières the story of her journey from Libya....	24/08/2011	Niger, Libya
Treating floods displaced communities in Southern Sindh Mohammed Khan* was spending the summer holiday, waiting to join the 10th grade when the floods came and submerged his hometown of Khaipur and many other parts of Pakistan. The torrential rains and massive water flows washed away...	06/10/2010	Pakistan
Gaza - Médecins Sans Frontières patients tell their stories Nour, Naël and Naima suffer from painful, disabling wounds and were not properly treated. They have entered the Médecins Sans Frontières post-operative care programs.	13/03/2008	Palestinian Territories
Somalia: Four year old boy recovers from malnutrition Four year old Khalif has been under treatment in Médecins Sans Frontières’ in-patient therapeutic feeding centre in the southern Somali town of Kismayo for just over two weeks when his mother, Abshiro Gedi, tells his remarkable...	03/02/2012	Somalia
South Sudan: "I Will Stay Here Until Our Home Place Has Peace." This 33-year-old man was interviewed in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan on December 7, 2011. He was once a community health worker with an NGO in Blue Nile State, but has since spent 10 years in a refugee camp in Ethiopia...	12/12/2011	South Sudan
South Sudan: Patient stories after the violence Patient testimony of a 24 year-old girl who was shot in the leg and in the cheek in the attack on Lekwongole on December 27th, 2011. Her only daughter, 3, was abducted.	25/01/2012	South Sudan
Patient Testimony: Refugees fleeing Blue Nile violence	15/03/2012	South Sudan
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
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