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Spotlight on: Dispatches No. 47 - Spring 2008

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Spotlight on: "That Kindamba Kid"

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Logistician Jake Wadland writes about the logistical ins and outs of project life in Kindamba, Republic of Congo.

 Spotlight on: MSF books currently available

Example: Minor Surgical Procedures in Remote Areas

Cover of MSF reference bookThis handbook presents the most common and most useful medico-surgical techniques that can be easily carried out by a doctor or a nurse with advanced training who may find themselves in an isolated health centre with no means of evacuating a patient, nor with any surgical or X-ray equipment.

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  • SLIDESHOWS

Spotlight on: Through the Lens: Central African Republic

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Spencer Platt, a staff photographer with Getty Images, spent two weeks in December 2007 with MSF in the Central African Republic. Here, he describes photographing a population living in extreme distress.

 

Spotlight on: MSF Voices from the Field, February 2008

A podcast that talks about MSF responding to influx of Congolese refugees in Kisoro, Uganda, with MSF nurse Laura Cobey.

Spotlight on: Cholera outbreak in Likasi, South-East of DRC

Watch a video about how cholera, the poor man’s disease, maintains its grip on the DRC mining town of Likasi. Living without clean drinking water and in bad hygiene conditions, people in the poorer districts of Likasi are facing a cholera epidemic.

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  • PRESENTATIONS

Spotlight on: MSF - An overview

This is an overview of the work of Médecins Sans Frontières in a standard PowerPoint Presentation format; free for you to download and use.

 

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