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Nurse Gets Worldly View via Poverty News Blog June 16th, 2008 at 20:00

image from Nurse dot comMaryland RN and Doctors Without Borders leave their stamp on global povertyDon VaughanJane Hannon, RN, BSN, MPH, knows what poverty looks like. It's the swollen bellies of infants who are slowly starving to death because there's no food to feed them. It's the hollowed eyes of adults afflicted with diseases that were eradicated long ago in more industrialized nations.As a healthcare provider, Hannon felt compelled to help such victims of global poverty. Between 2005 and 2007, she spent 10 months in Mussende, Angola, and six months in Teknaf, Bangladesh, working for the international relief agency Doctors Without Borders (DWB)."I had worked for the Peace Corps from 1997 to 1999, so I knew I wanted to do international health work," says Hannon, who works as a research...