The Lancet Digest

The Lancet Student Archive The Lancet Digest, March 27th - April 2nd 2009: "...The World Report covers the deaths caused by the trade in medical waste in India, the gaps in Dafur’s health services caused by aid expulsions and the effects of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases in Asia. Of particular interest to the field of global health is also the continuing Series on health in occupied Palestine and an accompanying Comment the health of Palestinian refugees, a profile on Nicola Roxon, the Australian Minister for Health and Aging and an obituary for surgeon William T. Close (father of Glenn), who helped tackle the first outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976 [...]"