cholera

“When the disease hits, it's life or death”

Moïse is thirty-three years old. He arrived a few hours ago, in a serious condition, at the cholera treatment centre in Thomassique, a small town in the Centre department in Haiti.

An MSF Cholera Treatment Centre. Haiti 2010 © Jean Marc Giboux

Dispatches - Spring 2011

  • Floating clinic better life on the Lagoon-Nigeria
  • Key weapon in the fight against Cholera
  • New hope for children caught in the crossfire-Gaza
  • 'Such beautiful people dese
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