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Helping Sri Lanka's Suicide Survivors

By Sam Mednick on 28 July 2008

In Sri Lanka, the rate of women who commit suicide by setting themselves on fire is higher than anywhere in the world, says Francisco Javier Sancho, head of communication and information services for Doctors Without Borders in Spain. The group is now working with surviving burn victims, helping to reconstruct their faces and bodies.

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