This issue of Medical Students' International

Some of you might wonder what's the value of this publication? What would the writings of a bunch of medical students change? Or just say: MSI 13...so what?

The magazine theme is the MDG No. 1; to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, the same theme of IFMSA March Meeting 2006 in Chile. In this way, MSI 13 has united the IFMSA message for all its members and partners. For the majority of medical students who couldn't make it to Chile, still they can get the IFMSA message in March 2006: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger. For many of the IFMSA partners and other international counterparts, they can still hear the voice of medical students worldwide saying; Make Poverty History.

Other than achieving these goals to promote and strengthen the Federation's values, still MSI 13 has just taken the first step in making up the minds of the future doctors about poverty, the worst human constraint. MSI 13's real impact would appear in the readers' better understanding of poverty, after getting new facts and different opinions about poverty.

The magazine shows that IFMSA intercultural diversity and spread all over the world didn't prevent its unity to support MDG1.I'm really proud that it is produced solely by medical students from various countries. MSI 13 proves once more that IFMSA doesn't just Act Locally, but also Thinks Globally very well.

Ahmed Magdy
Publications Director, IFMSA
Sixth year medical student, Cairo University, Egypt

In this issue:

• Letter from the IFMSA
• Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
• Medicine for the Poor: Focus on Bangladesh
• Poverty and Conflict in Nepal: A Vicious Cycle
• Overcoming Poverty with Wise Healthcare Practices
• Have We Learned Anything? Rwanda Visited Ten Years Later
• Challenging Poverty in Africa
• Explaining the inexplicable: why bumper crops don't impede famine
• Poverty in Palestine
• Hope for Mumbai's Kids
• The Looking Glass
• Inequality and Inadequacy: Examining the imbalance of Canada's resources
• Authors

The MSI 13 Editorial Board:
Ripudaman S. Minhas, Editor-in-Chief
Beverlee Verona L. Mante, Theme Adviser
Francesca Gowing, Copy Editor
Laurence Wicks, Copy Editor
Ahmed Magdy, Publications Director

Inquiries
International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA)
Division of Publications - Ahmed Magdy (Egypt), Director

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