Over 45 MSF volunteers working around the world tell their real stories from the frontline

Screening on the Discovery Channel (Cable TV Channel 53) at 11 pm every Saturday

With unprecedented access, Crisis Zone cameras ride along with doctors, nurses, psychologists, engineers, and logisticians - joining them as they leave the comforts of home for some of the planet’s most troubled hotspots.

Whether it's a civil war in Burundi or an epidemic in Uzbekistan, Crisis Zone offers a unique inside look at the lives of humanitarian workers facing their own fears and struggling to make a difference. The weekly television series features 30 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) projects in more than 20 different countries including China and neighbouring countries and profiles more than 45 MSF volunteers.

Highlights of the upcoming episodes

07/08/04 at 11pm Crisis Zone -Women's Work

This episode takes viewers to locations in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. In Sierra Leone, Californian nurse, Mary Jo, and other Medecins Sans Frontieres staff save the lives of a malnourished baby and a woman who has just given birth in a rural health clinic. And in Afghanistan, Rachel and Sander are a couple working in Kandahar at a war-torn hospital. She treats patients while he helps to rebuild the hospital.

14/08/04 at 11pm Crisis Zone -House Arrest

In Cambodia, Eric, a young doctor from France, helps run an HIV/AIDS program in Phnom Penh. One of Eric's patients has bought medicine in a local market and now has a severe allergic reaction. In Sri Lanka, French doctor Veronique, suddenly finds herself in the middle of ethnic violence, treating the victims of a grenade attack. In another part of the hospital are her burn patients - women who have attempted suicide by setting themselves on fire. And in Russia, Gabriel and his colleague Manana try to improve conditions for Chechens living in refugee camps in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia. Medecins Sans Frontieres is one of the few organizations willing to risk working in this dangerous war zone, but when the security situation deteriorates Gabriel and Manana have to pull out.

21/08/04 at 11pm Crisis Zone -Nomad M.D

In the Philippines, Josephine, a doctor from Manila provides medical care for families who make their living by scavenging in the city dump. Called to the aid of a young child in distress, Josephine takes the boy to the hospital and nurses him back to health. In China, Australian nurse, Kate Turner, tries to introduce modern medical care to one of the most remote regions in China, where beliefs in mysticism can be more powerful than the allure of western medicine. And in Ethiopia, Helmy is a 28-year-old Belgian doctor working in Afar, a desolate region with constant sand storms and searing midday sun. Its Helmy's job to convince the traditionally nomadic Afar people to stay at the TB clinic long enough to complete an 8-month-long treatment.

28/08/04 at 11pm Crisis Zone -A Long Way From Home

In Sudan, amidst a raging civil war, sixty-year-old Australian grandmother Marg Ward finds it personally rewarding to care for TB victims among the Dinka tribe. But when the war arrives on her doorstep, she finds herself treating wounded rebel soldiers. In China, homesick and culture-shocked, Ed Chai, a Chinese-American neurologist from New York City tries to educate local doctors at a rural hospital in Gong Dong. Ed struggles with the frustration of treating curable diseases without proper facilities and supplies. And in Peru, Melena works tirelessly in the rainforests to treat and educate the victims of the deadly flesh-eating disease, leishmaniasis.

04/09/04 at 11pm Crisis Zone - The War Zone

Physiotherapist Roger Micolta is in one of the most violent towns of Colombia where he struggles to rehabilitate victims of gang violence who have been purposefully shot in the spine -his colleague is Australian psychologist Justine Simons. Meanwhile, Heidi and An are in Burundi during one of the most brutal civil wars in the world. An comforts a family that was caught in the crossfire, while Heidi copes with the stress of being the only doctor at the hospital. They hope to heal the physical and emotional wounds of war. And at a rural health clinic in Sierra Leone, Australian Midwife Donna Smith brings hope to hundreds of pregnant mothers in need of pre-natal care.

11/09/04 at 11pm Crisis Zone - Kate & Leslie

In Sudan, two women do what they can to right the wrongs of the longest civil war in Africa. Leaving her new husband behind in Amsterdam, Leslie undertakes an arduous journey to reach remote regions in the Nuba Mountains in order to assess reports of atrocities and violence against a forgotten people. In a remote clinic, Dr. Kate Done, the daughter of two doctors appears unfazed by the nearby bombing and treats wounded rebel soldiers who don't always want her care.

18/09/04 at 11pm Crisis Zone - Street Life

In the Phillipines, Daisy, a 23-year-old social worker helps street children in Manila. She tries to reunite a 12-year-old runaway girl with her family and she helps another girl, a 14-year-old prostitute, who wants to be placed in a shelter. In Burma, Swiss doctor Anne Pittet works with a local physician to treat cerebral malaria, a virulent and often deadly form of malaria carried by parasites. A 7-year-old boy with a deadly parasite count in his blood is treated and survives. In Guinea, Isidore Lama works with street children living in one of the largest open-air markets in the region. Isidore runs a center providing the children with medical care and literacy classes and she forms a very special bond with one of the children. In hotspots around the world, like South Africa, Honduras and Thailand, Medecins Sans Frontieres is trying to bring cheap anti-retroviral medications to thousands of people with AIDS who have no access to the medications of the developed world.

25/09/04 at 11pm Crisis Zone - Snakes & Pits

In Cambodia, English engineer Justin Hummel has a big problem. He needs to build a well to provide clean water to a local hospital, but he's never built one before and doesn't speak the same language as his workers. In Sudan, at a remote Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic, Australian Megan Cox works hard to save the life of a young boy who has been bitten by a venomous snake. She must also face the heart-wrenching task of telling a young mother that she can do nothing to save her baby, who is suffering from a brain condition. In Indonesia, nurse Solfrid hikes deep into the rain forest where indigenous communities are living much as they have for generations. It's her job to check on an isolated health outpost to make sure that they know how to report and cope with epidemics of malaria and other deadly diseases. And at a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Iranian border, Chris is confronted by a couple that must make a life or death decision. A refugee with a serious heart condition must decide whether to continue her journey to Kabul even though there will be no facilities there to handle her health emergency.

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