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World TB Day: Patients speak out
Patients suffering from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have been blogging about their experiences of the disease and treatment for
Syria: Patient testimonies of violence and abuse
These testimonies from injured people across Syria were collected by Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff between 30th January and 6th February 2012.
South Sudan: "They abducted my child and slit the throats of the two boys"
In the state of Jonglei, in South Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of inter-communal fighting. These testimonies were collected from patients at MSF's hospital in Pibor.
“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.
Somalia: Gearing up in Galgaduud
In large parts of south and central Somalia, where malnutrition rates are high, ongoing conflict makes it difficult for international organizations like MSF to operate at full capacity.
"I haven't seen our home region for over nine months"
As more than 2,000 Somalis cross the borders of their country into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself unprecedented numbers of people are on the move in a de
"It’s only lunchtime and we’ve already admitted 151 children today.”
Dr Hussein Sheikh Qassim works in the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Marere, southern Somalia. He spoke to us by phone at 1pm on 15 July 2011.
"Over the past weeks, I've seen hundreds of malnourished children"
My name is Osman* and I work for MSF as the nutritional supervisor in Marere, a village of 6,000 people in south central Somalia.
Fully sick bloggers tell TB as it is
Courtesy of Sarah Boseley's Global Health Blog at guardian.co.uk
Neglected Victims of the War in Libya - Abdul
Abdul, 23, left Ivory Coast in 2008. Before the war broke out, he spent months in Libyan prison. He is now in the Shousha refugee camp.
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