Alexander and Natalie Pinchook describe their work with Tsentr Deystvie (CentreAction) to help Belorussians cope with the aftermath of Chernobyl.

By nature I am what Australians call a 'doer', not a contemplative.

When her husband and her daughter became seriously ill, Harriet Cameron's world was turned upside down.

Raj Anand knows the formula to save 1.5 million babies' lives a year - and it doesn't come out of a tin. He talks to Mike Brown.

For a good part of my life I existed in no man's land, possessed with the desire to be normal and left alone, brewing the poison of self-pity in reaction to the day's character assassination.

I was expecting a baby. My health was not at all good: high blood pressure, nose bleeds, fainting fits, anaemia. My doctor's advice was categorical: I must have an abortion, there was no chance of childbirth.

Western society undergoing an age-explosion.

David Allbrook's watchword has led him into famine relief, the hospice movement, the presidency of Amnesty International in Australia and pioneering medical training in East Africa. John Bond meets an academic who believes in action.

Now she is in her final year of training, working on a cardiology ward with 30 beds. The patients are critically ill and deaths are frequent.

The doctors made it clear that their choice would be not to continue treatment. Although we felt extremely vulnerable, we felt that we had to talk to Anthony himself and let him decide his future.