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Doctor

30/08/2007

Dr Meena Okera, a doctor from South Australia, is on her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières and working on the HIV/AIDS and TB programme in Homa Bay, Kenya. Here, Meena describes the human side of a doctor’s work in a...

Category: Letters from the field

Tuberculosis Treatment Casts a Shadow of Uncertainty

17/05/2007

Long and arduous treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis

Category: Field news

Struggling to control tuberculosis in Kyrgyzstan’s prisons

07/05/2007

In Kyrgyzstan, the impoverished, land-locked state of the former Soviet Union, the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the creaking penitentiary system is currently about 25 times higher than in the civilian population (2,700 per...

Category: Field news

Nurse

17/04/2007

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...

Category: Letters from the field

Médecins Sans Frontières Interview - Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis & HIV/AIDS

27/03/2007

Heidi Spillane, a Sydney-based Médecins Sans Frontières Doctor, talks about the challenges of treating multi-drug resistant TB (tuberculosis) and HIV/AIDS in Homa Bay, Kenya.

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