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Village Birth
Heather Harris is a midwife from Melbourne. She has been on five
missions with MSF, two to Sri lanka and three to Cote d'Ivoire.
Here she describes a day in her life working wth MSF in Cote
d'Ivoire.
“When a baby has
to come, it has to come”
Bronwyn Hale is a midwife from Hastings, New Zealand. She has worked
with MSF on two missions one in Afghanistan and the other in Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC). Here she tells us about her experiences
as an MSF field worker in DRC.
Delivering Twins
Janet Coleman is a nurse/midwife from New Zealand. Here she talks
about her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières
in Akuem, South Sudan.
Diary
from Darfur
Maaike van Rijn is a midwife from Holland, currently on her second
mission with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Maaike
shares her experience of arrival and working in the Darfur region
in Sudan.
Delivery Tukul
Janet Coleman is a nurse/midwife
from New Zealand. Here she talks about her first mission with Médecins
Sans Frontières in South Sudan.
 Somalia: helping women affected by obstetric fistula » January
2008
Haiti:
Emergency Obstetrics in MSF's Jude Anne hospital » September
2006
Mobile
medicine: the work of MSF Doctors in Ingushetia and Chechnya » February
2006
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