"The Choice"
ANGOLA | BOLIVIA

Angola:

When a cease-fire draws 27 years of civil war to a close, a large-scale humanitarian crisis in Angola is discovered. Formerly inaccessible areas of the country are opened up, exposing tens of thousands of people who have been cut off from medical and food aid since 1998. Levels of malnutrition are among the worst seen in Africa in a decade.

A young British doctor on her first mission for MSF, Jacqui Mukoyogo, is assigned to a Therapeutic Feeding Center (TFC) in the town of Malange just as it is quickly flooded with people looking for help. Meanwhile, Els Adams, a veteran MSF nurse, is the first aid worker to arrive at a camp set up by the Angolan government to temporarily accommodate former rebel soldiers and their families. Momentarily overwhelmed by the need she finds there, Els is forced to triage patients for transfer by truck back to the TFC.

To read more about MSF in Angola, click here:
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/ng/ep10/ep10_region.html

Bolivia:

Oscar Bernal, a Colombian doctor, is stationed in the Chapare region of Bolivia, where MSF offers primary health care to people suffering as a result of geographic isolation and lack of public health infrastructure. While travelling up the Ichilo river by boat to assess health needs in an especially remote area, Oscar finds a young pregnant woman floating in a canoe with her desperate family. Oscar is concerned the baby is too large for a conventional birth – the mother has been in labour for more than 24 hours, and will probably need a c-section – but it’s a race against time as night falls and the hospital is still many miles upriver.

To read more about MSF in Boliva, click here:
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
publications/ar/i2002/bolivia.shtml