Description
Diabetes care takes more than insulin. It also takes reliable access to food, regular monitoring, and support to manage the condition day to day. Now imagine doing all of that in a refugee camp with no reliable electricity, no transportation, and shrinking food rations. On this episode of the Humanitarian Lens, we explore MSF’s work with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where close to a million refugees live after being displaced by violence and persecution in Myanmar since 2017.
Our teams currently provide care to more than 2,000 people living with diabetes, high blood pressure, and other non-communicable diseases in Cox’s Bazar.
In a conversation with host Elias Primoff, Dr. Anjoli Anand, who leads MSF's work on non-communicable diseases, explains why caring for chronic conditions is an essential part of humanitarian response. She describes a patient’s home visit that turned into an emergency, the stigma that leads families to hide a diabetes diagnosis, and a clay pot that lets patients store insulin at home instead of walking to a clinic twice a day.
The Humanitarian Lens is a podcast from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA. MSF is an international, independent medical humanitarian organization providing care to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.
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