Patients' stories

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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: 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

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

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

Voices from Dadaab

We gathered the stories of recent refugees to arrive at Dadaab refugee camps from Somalia.

15/06/2011 Kenya, Somalia

Ivory Coast: Voices after the violence

Ordinary people – the grandparents, children, fathers and sisters of the country – suffered in the ferocious violence that swept Ivory Coast after a brutally contested election.

10/06/2011 Ivory Coast, Liberia

Martha’s New Leg

Thanks to four large screws, road crash victim Martha Fulagbe (4) from DR Congo is guaranteed an active future.

25/05/2011 Democratic Republic of Congo

Mothers’ health matters: Southern Sudan

Hundreds of fat cows with beautiful harp-shaped horns graze on either side of the unpaved and dusty road of Gograil West County. Each cow is someone's prized possession, but although the animals are well cared for, the health of...

24/01/2011 Sudan

Kala Azar Patient Testimony - Malakal Hospital, southern Sudan

My name is Thinjin Wal and I have four children. Three of my boys are here at the Malakal Hospital and have all been receiving treatment for kala azar.

17/12/2010 Sudan

In Hargeisa’s Shadaha camp, life flourishes amidst hardship

“Having a baby is a joy. Having three is a triple blessing,” says Fardows Abu-Bakr, 34, who recently gave birth to healthy triplets in Hargeisa, Somaliland. She gazes at Sudais, Su’ad and Sadiyo with love, pride and...

10/12/2010
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