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Andrea Solnes Miltenburg
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The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is still common in 28 African countries. The way of performing the practice, the age at which the practice takes place and the reasons to perform the practice differ widely. Similarities are often seen within certain ethnic groups rather than within countries. Last year Andrea Solnes Miltenburg spent three months in the Edna Adan Maternityand Teaching Hospital (EAMTH) in Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland. There, she investigated the decision making process of women to continue the practice of FGM.
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Stije Leopold
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A 10 year old girl complains about haematuria and dysuria for about two months. She also needs to go more frequently and urgently, thereby bringing relief of the pain in her lower abdomen. The haematuria is characterized by clots of bright red blood at the end of voiding and is worse in the morning and after walking. Physical examination reveals a mild splenomegaly and tenderness in her left flank. The girl doesn't seem very ill, but signs of anaemia are present. A urine sample shows macroscopic parasite eggs of Schistosoma haematobium. The diagnosis: urinary schistosomiasis caused by S. haematobium affecting tract.
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Dana Yumani and Nathan Fidder
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IFMSA-NL discusses the Millennium Development Goals with West-African medical students and the WHO |
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Emmaline Brouwer
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Emmaline Brouwer went to Vietnam for a three month elective programme. In this article she describes the educational system in Vietnam and gives examples of how medical education is adopted to the health care needs in the country. |
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Floor van Dijk
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Psychiatry is by definition a specialism that is sensitive to cultural differences. This cultural gap results in clinical implications. For example, how should the Western psychiatrist deal with the supposed depression or general anxiety disorder of a Congolese mother whereas the woman only complains about her heart wanting to fly out of her chest? |
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Rianne Blom
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Worldwide, more than a half million people have poor eyesight due to eye defects. Most of those people live in low-income countries. Through poor eyesight it is difficult to work or to attend school. Vision 2020, a programme of the WHO aims to ban most visual handicaps before 2020. One of the initiatives of Vision 2020 is Universal Spectacles (U-Specs). |
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Loes Magnin
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Welcome to Cuba. Country of salsa, rumba, old Cadillacs and mojito's. Country of loud music from every room, of flirting men and women, of warmth and laughter. Country of sensuality and sexual equality. Country of sun and sea and old people still in love walking hand in hand. Country of old history, of deteriorated buildings, of political ideology. Country of long lines of people waiting in front of nearly empty state-owned shops. Country of propaganda, of embargo’s, of short supplies, of hidden poverty. Country of non-accessible internet, of censorship, of never being able to speak your mind freely. Country of going to prison when trying to leave. Bienvenido a Cuba: the most confusing country I have so far travelled to.
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Voting attendance related to screening-show-up / Cancer epidemic in Iraq due to depleted uranium / documentary released about HIV stigma / Egypt votes for transplant law / US abolishes ban on entry HIV-positive foreigners
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Riikka Kemppinen (25) is a fifth year medical student from Helsinki, Finland. |
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Global Medicine 9
