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  • The Mother-Baby Pack, a colour-coded take-home box of essential medicines, including antiretrovirals, will make it easier for women who cannot return to a clinic to stay healthy.
    The Mother-Baby Pack, a colour-coded take-home box of essential medicines, including antiretrovirals, will make it easier for women who cannot return to a clinic to stay healthy.
  • One of the main obstacles has been a shortage of medical professionals, with most local doctors and nurses preferring to find employment in other countries.
    One of the main obstacles has been a shortage of medical professionals, with most local doctors and nurses preferring to find employment in other countries.
  • In Lesotho, the rate of mother-to-child transmission is still high, and the big challenge now will be to reach pregnant women in remote areas.
    In Lesotho, the rate of mother-to-child transmission is still high, and the big challenge now will be to reach pregnant women in remote areas.
  • In stark contrast, good progress has been made in preventing mother-to-child transmission of the virus.
    In stark contrast, good progress has been made in preventing mother-to-child transmission of the virus.
  • Globally, AIDS-related deaths amongst adolescents increased by 50 percent between 2005 and 2012.
    Globally, AIDS-related deaths amongst adolescents increased by 50 percent between 2005 and 2012.
  • Most new infections occur in young women, who are up to three times more likely to get infected than young men.
    Most new infections occur in young women, who are up to three times more likely to get infected than young men.
  • Testing and treating adolescents is becoming a critical part of Lesotho’s campaign to fight the third highest HIV prevalence in the world
    Testing and treating adolescents is becoming a critical part of Lesotho’s campaign to fight the third highest HIV prevalence in the world
  • Schoolchildren wait to get tested for HIV in Mekaling, Lesotho. Those who are 12 years and older are legally allowed to be tested without parental consent.
    Schoolchildren wait to get tested for HIV in Mekaling, Lesotho. Those who are 12 years and older are legally allowed to be tested without parental consent.
  • Farm workers in central Kachin state collect a harvest of lentils in a hillside field near Mai Ja Yang.
  • Maternal health care after disasters tends to come too little, too late. In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, experts estimate some 300,000 pregnant women are in need of care. This woman is receiving care in Tacloban.
  • Rose Gilbes fled fighting in Papua province for neighbouring Papua New Guinea whose return home has been inhospitable
  • Children play outside their new home at Nuanetsi Ranch in south-eastern Zimbabwe's Masvingo Province after being relocated along with their families to make way for construction of the Tokwe-Mukosi Dam
  • Amai Wadzanai Moyo sits outside her new home soon after being relocated from her village in south-eastern Zimbabwe's Masvingo Province to make way for construction of the Tokwe-Mukosi Dam
  • Sanitation woes in Mathare
    Urban slums grapple with poor sanitation
  • National anti-polio campaigns in Pakistan used to be launched with colourful rallies and poster campaigns but following militant attacks they’ve become more low-profile
    Glossy anti-polio campaigns are a thing of the past
  • Typhoon survivor and Tacloban resident Jennifer Bernal, a 31-year mother of two, erected a makeshift kiosk in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan to earn money. Millions were impacted by the category 5 storm which struck the central Philippines on 8 November
  • Italian restaurateur Joseph Bonavitacola, 57, with his wife Kathy, 50, at the couple's restaurant Giuseppe's in the Typhoon-hit city of Tacloban. Local businessmen are being urged to return to the city to jump start the local economy in the wake of Typhoo
  • An elderly woman in Chin State outside Kanpetlet township
  • An eldely woman outside Kanpetlet township who reports untreated health problems due to problems getting to care
    Chin State's sick, especially the elderly, turn to traditional healers and spirit mediums in the absence of qualified health staff
  • An indigenous Papuan in the provincial capital of Jayapura where odd jobs are among the few options for native Papuans who struggle to find steady employment, despite a recent government affirmative action decree limiting construction projects to Papuan
  • Schoolgirl Pan Kwee, 10, in Chin State's Laung Pan primary school, who said she wants to be a scientist
    Pan Kwee- scientist in the making?
  • Washing hands. For generic use
    Le concept de « valeur partagée » et l’importance d’avoir des futurs clients en santé
  • Boys wash hands from a water source at a NEWAH WASH water project in Puware Shikhar, Udayapur District, Nepal
  • En route to school, some students are also prepared to head to the fields, demonstrating a tension for educators between school and home responsibilities for Chin State's schoolchildren
    Un groupe de jeunes garçons sur le chemin de l’école
  • Schoolchildren in Ngon Laung village primary school in Chin State
  • A monastic school of 120 students in Kanpetlet township in Chin State
    A monastic school of 120 students in Kanpetlet township in Chin State
  • Shing Ha Ling, 21, from Myanmar's Chin State who struggles in poverty to provide for her family
  • IDPs recently arrived to Metro Manila following the Category 5 Super Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) that hit the central Philippines on  November
    IDPs recently arrived to Metro Manila following the Category 5 Super Typhoon Haiyan
  • Indigenous patients' long trek to healthcare
    Indigenous patients' long trek to healthcare in Papua
  • Indonesian Papuan indigenous persons qualify for health insurance under a recent government program that has swelled patient queues and hospital waiting rooms as people like Yusmina Wakum (seated in the wheelchair) take advantage of the near-free treatmen
  • Local aid workers have worked tirelessly for hours in repacking goods for the thousands of affected families in Tacloban City in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the central Philippines on 8 November 2013
    Local aid workers pack relief goods post-typhoon
  • Local medical aid workers in Tacloban were overwhelmed with patients seeking medical attention in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the central Philippines on 8 November

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