In the mediaSixty years on, refugee convention comes second to politics
09/12/2011
This week, world leaders gathered in Geneva to commemorate 60 years of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Yet it is an anniversary that the world's 15.1 million refugees have little reason to celebrate. Today,...
Canberra Times: Keep up good job on AIDS, Australia
02/12/2011
The global fight against HIV/AIDS, an epidemic that killed about 1.8 million people last year, is at a critical crossroads. On the one hand, new scientific evidence offers promise to finally stem - if not reverse - the epidemic...
Swaziland: Going backwards on the fight against Aids: What to tell the patients?
02/12/2011
Soon it will be necessary to explain to patients infected with HIV, simple and multi-drug resistant strains of tuberculosis, and to the mothers who each year loose their children to malaria, why big banks have access to emergency...
Find your calling as a Medecins Sans Frontieres midwife
24/11/2011
New Zealand nurse Janine Issa, 59, found her calling as a Médecins Sans Frontières midwife. Trained as a nurse (1969-1972) at New Zealand’s Auckland Public Hospital, Janine worked in her home town before travelling and working in...
ABC PM: MSF leaves Thailand
10/10/2011
The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières is withdrawing in protest from Thailand due to a stalemate with the Thai government over whether the organisation can treat unregistered migrants, mostly Burmese migrant workers.
Somali famine a many-headed beast
13/09/2011
Médecins Sans Frontières International President Dr Unni Karunakara writes about the complex causes of the current crisis in Somalia in The Australian. This article first appeared on the Guardian website on 2 September 2011.
Nigeria: Fighting the fistula stigma
30/08/2011
Journalist David Wroe and photographer Penny Bradfield visited the Médecins Sans Frontières emergency obstetric and fistula repair program in Jahun, northern Nigeria. Their story and photos were published in the Sydney Morning...
Doctor swaps obesity battle for fight against malnutrition
20/07/2011
Karen Poole normally does a lot of work to combat lifestyle diseases like obesity and diabetes. But for the past 10 weeks the Australian GP has been focused on the opposite - severe malnutrition.
Video: Australian doctor in Dadaab
20/07/2011
Sydney Morning Herald video interview with Dr Karen Poole, working in Dagahley refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya.
Op-Ed: Vaccines can be even more affordable
16/06/2011
As published in The Australian newspaper, June 13 2011. Author: Dr Nicholas Coatsworth, President of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia.