Patients' stories

Topic	Date	Location
Listening to HIV positive children in Zimbabwe Médecins Sans Frontières helps care for over 7,000 HIV positive kids in Zimbabwe. Over 60% of those are already on ARV treatment.	28/10/2008	Zimbabwe
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
A beam of hope in Tawila Hospital Médecins Sans Frontières opens newly renovated hospital in North Darfur	08/04/2010	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
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
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
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