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2011 issue 3

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‘I was praying to God to take her life.’

What does it take for a health worker to wish death for her patient, even while doing everything to save her? This is just one of the agonizing questions I was confronted with during a mental health assessment.

Guest editorial

Cash, a chance for change
By Degan Ali, executive director of African Development Solutions.

So close, yet so far

Along the Mediterranean coast near the border of Italy and France, people fleeing conflict, persecution and poverty live in limbo.