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Annelien de Kat & Esther Bot
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Vaccinations have become an essential necessity within our public health system. In some cases they have even eradicated diseases. Unfortunately, vaccines are not readily available to everyone in need. With the recent cholera epidemic in Haiti, finance and logistics were among the limiting factors in supplying the entire population with an adequate vaccine. Overall, accessibility of vaccines is especially limited in developing countries where various problems are encountered. Could edible vaccines be the solution to these problems? |
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Johanneke Tummers
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January 12, 2010, 16:53h. The earth in Port-au-Prince shakes with a force of 7.0 on the Richter scale. One year later, I went to Haiti for the Netherlands Red Cross, to critically look at the aid that has been provided in the year that had past. How could it be that so many people were still living in tents? How could cholera have such a devastating effect? In just a week, I came to learn the harsh reality of delivering humanitarian aid in a disaster zone. |
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2001, September 11. The World Trade Centre collapses and an enormous cloud of dust covers the city centre. Besides facing the tragedy of a terrorist attack, the citizens of New York are also exposed to around 400 ton of asbestos fibres, released from the collapsing Twin Towers. |
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David Kopsky
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As a medical student you learn a lot about diseases and their cures. The causes of many diseases though are still unknown, which motivates exploring different medical areas. For me, this resulted in following a three-year course in acupuncture. After completing medical school and the acupuncture course, I went to the Philippines to work in a public hospital. Here my real acupuncture journey started. I could effectively treat itchiness caused by Dengue fever with acupuncture or relieve muscle pain in my companion travellers by ear puncture needles. Puncturing the ear was effective and simple: hit the needle where it hurts. But what is the story of acupuncture? |
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Linda Hoevenaren
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Nigeria. Daren is a 54-year old woman suffering from severe skin lesions covering her whole body, causing an uncontrollable itching. Her sight is almost gone and therefore her six-year-old granddaughter leads her around the village during the day. This is not the village where she was born. That place was abandoned a few years ago after many people started to develop the same symptoms she has. Daren lives with her son now and cannot take care of herself anymore. Neither can she contribute to the household. She feels useless and suffers from depression. Daren has onchocerciasis. |
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Koen Bolhuis
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When you ask someone to imagine the Saharan desert, he will probably come up with an oriental version of scattered dunes, a striking heat and a strong wind blowing, while nomads traverse the desert on camels in search for commerce. Though this hardly reflects the truth as it is, it seemed even further from reality when the Sahrawi nomads faced the Moroccan armed forces who invaded their camp in the Western Sahara in November 2010. |
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Keren Zaccai
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Over the past decade, millions of people have been affected by natural disasters worldwide. The tsunami in Japan in 2011 and the earthquakes in Chili and Haiti in 2010 are just a few of the disasters that shook the world in the past years. What happens directly after a disaster strikes? Who are the people who go to the place everyone runs away from? What is it like to be there and help people who lost everything? |
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Renske de Greef
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Renske de Greef is a freelance journalist and writes a daily column for the Dutch newspaper nrc.next. This column is a translation of a column she wrote for her book “Sex in Africa” and is published with the approval of the author.
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GM Mix
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Getting high on heroin in Tanzania / Is the silent killer killing you? / Rwanda: male circumcision without pain medication / Chechnya: mandatory HIV test before marriage / AIDS conference in the Vatican
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Naroesha Jagessar is humanitarian response officer for UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) in Harare, Zimbabwe. She started her job in March 2010 and worksfor UNFPA in the field of reproductive health. |
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Usama (24) is a 5th year medical student from Gijon, Spain. |
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Global Medicine 12
