Doctors Without Borders in Ethiopia: Among the Afar

192 Pages·2011·2.34 MB·English

by  Nyla Jo Jones Hubbard

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data —
Hubbard, Nyla Jo Jones.
Doctors without Borders in Ethiopia: Among the Afar/ Nyla Jo Jones
Hubbard.
p. ; cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-87586-852-3 (soft: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-87586-853-0 (hard:
alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-87586-854-7 (ebook) 1. Médecins sans frontières
(Association)—Biography. 2. Voluntary Health Agencies—Ethiopia—
Biography. 3. Volunteers—Ethiopia—Biography. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Médecins sans frontières (Association) 2. Voluntary Health
Agencies--Ethiopia--Autobiography. 3. Laboratory Personnel--Ethiopia--
Autobiography. 4. Voluntary Workers--Ethiopia--Autobiography. WA 1]
RA552.E8H83 2011
362.10963—dc22
2010051137
Front Cover: Ethiopia - Ethiopians peer through a hole in a fence while
waiting in line for food and medicine at a clinic run by Médecins sans frontières
(MSF) (Doctors Without Borders) in the town of Kuyera, 250kms south of
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 01 October 2008.
© Stephen Morrison/epa/Corbis
Printed in the United States

Dedicated to my team, expat and Afar, and to Hawah Kamara,
my MSF USA contact, who died in 2005. She was the warmth of
Africa personified.