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Kala-azar: the world’s guilty secret

Benjamin H M Hunn
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (10) || doi: 10.5694/mja12.10767
Published online: 19 November 2012

The clinic of the Sudan Medical Relief Project (www.sudanmedicalrelief.org) is in Old Fangak, in what is now the Republic of South Sudan. In 2010, I spent 7 weeks working there with an American medical team, before being evacuated owing to increasing violence in the area.

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  • School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS.


Correspondence: Benhunn@me.com

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