The recent outbreak of Ebola in the DRC and Uganda reflects a global hierarchy of whose lives are protected, whose diseases matter, and which crises are considered economically worth solving. It should not be normal that communities facing deadly outbreaks still depend primarily on improvisation, emergency goodwill, and delayed international attention. Neglected diseases is a euphemism for neglected populations.
Two lines of poetry and twelve steps: a journey towards rediscovering beauty in the ordinary
So you think you know all about addiction and the "typical addict." Think again, because addiction does not discriminate. What you see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg.
Eric Stobbaerts was Head of Mission for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the former Yugoslavia from …
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