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The African adventures of Mary and Henry (Blog)
20 December 2010

Dr Mary Toulson and her husband Hendry now live in Ingwavuma, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa for one year. Mary is working as a rural doctor and Henry as a teacher.The two of them together keep a blog on their journey so far! Read all about it... Read full story

An Irishman in Africa - Dr Stephen Alcorn (Blog)
15 December 2010

Stephen Alcorn, a junior doctor from Belfast working in a deep rural hospital in the Transkei has a blog where he documents his time and adventures in South Africa: http://bit.ly/ecQQwy Read full story

A rural pharmacist on the Wild Coast
15 November 2010

Ian Jordaan left private practice after only a few years and moved out to the Wild Coast (Transkei) into a rural hospital - Zithulele. Read amazing his story... Read full story

Under-reporting of HIV in rural South Africa
3 November 2010

Dr Clare Hollister from the UK - worked at Ngewlezane Hopsital (in the Family Medicine) in the KwaZulu-Natal Province for a year. In this time she wrote a study on the under-reporting of HIV in South Africa. Read full story