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  • Nisha, 11, was born in Lebanon. Her parents, originally from Sierra Leone, decided to seek employment in Lebanon during the mid 1990s due to the civil war in their country. "Living here just makes you crazy because I deal with a lot of racism every day. I
  • Mona, 15, has a Sri Lankan mother and a Jordanian father. Her mother came to Lebanon 20 years ago as a domestic worker. “I don’t like it here because I don’t fit in with the Lebanese and I would like to go to Sri Lanka and live the life of the peopl
  • Attacks on NGOs have increased significantly in 2008.
  • Cattle grazing in Swaziland.
  • A girl fetching water from a stream.
  • Thousands of people have been displaced in Mindanao as a result of the conflict.
  • In Bangladesh, 16 million children in 73,000 schools will be trained to wash hands with soap to cut diarrhoeal death of children by half and pneumonia deaths by a quarter.
  • Replanting depleted mangroves in Casamance, southern Senegal, a project by NGO Oceanium to replant 6 million trees.
  • Replanting depleted mangroves in Casamance, southern Senegal, a project by NGO Oceanium to replant 6 million trees.
  • Mangroves in Casamance, southern Senegal, which are one of the world's richest ecosystems, according to NGO IDEE-Casamance.
  • Jaafar Hamid Amin Hamza, 9, had a Jaundice complication when he was born that went untreated, resulting in his current disability known as quadriplegia. No treatment facilities exist in Egypt or the Arab region for Jaafar's permanent condition, making hi
  • Hamid and his family at their rented apartment. While the humanitarian crisis of displaced Iraqis shows little sign of abating, the push for resettlement of Iraqi refugees has increasingly put strain on the resettlement program at the UNHCR Cairo office.
  • Handwashing with soap is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrheal disease and pneumonia, which together are responsible for approximately 3.5 million child deaths every year, according to UNICEF.
  • Dengue fever patients under treatment at Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, the Vietnam capital.
  • A patient who has undergone an eye operation at the Gulu district hospital in northern Uganda.
    A patient who has undergone an eye operation at the Gulu District hospital in notherrn Uganda: Preventable eye conditions are prevalent in the region
  • Actors rehearse their parts for TV series on HIV in São Tomé and Príncipe.
  • Rohullah, 13, was trained to do suicide attack.
  • Fatma Swalleh, 24, lost her mother, the only parent she ever knew six years ago to HIV/AIDS.
  • Afghanistan does not have a specific regulation on safe management of the medical waste and over 60 public and private hospitals in Kabul did not have incinerators or other equipments to deal with the problem.
  • Epidemiological studies conducted by the WHO showed that a person who experiences one needle stick injury from a needle used on an infected source patient has risks of 30 percent, 1.8 percent, and 0.3 percent of becoming infected with Hepatitis B & C viru
  • Medical wastes such as used needles and syringes, soiled dressings, body parts, diagnostic samples, blood, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and medical devices are abundantly available in open rubbish areas around hospitals in urban areas where poor children of
  • Surgeons conduct an eye operation at the Gulu district hospital in northern Uganda.
    Uganda, where 350 anaesthetists covered a population of more than 30 million in 2008
  • Afghan children scavenge in waste bins for food and reusable items.
  • Too many people (more than 150 million) on to little land (56,000 sq miles)
  • Madhesi armed groups agree to talk peace with the government. Thousands of families have been displaced due to threats and attacks by Madhesi armed groups.
  • Madhesi armed groups in Nepal's Terrai agree to talk peace with government. Thousands of families have been displaced due to threats and attacks by Madhesi armed groups.
  • An Afghan boy holds his sister as an interpreter working with the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team explains how to administer the medicine a doctor prescribed for her during a medical civic action program in the district of Tagab in the Kapisa provin
  • While there is no accurate data on the size of the Christian community in Iraq, hundreds of thousands are believed to have fled the country since the US-led 2003 invasion.
  • Dozens of families have started leaving the districts of central Daikundi province due to drought and food insecurity, local officials said.
  • David Nabarro, senior UN System Influenza Coordinator (UNSIC), told IRIN in Bangkok. "I'm impressed with progress, but I am saying a lot more needs to be done, particularly on multi-sectoral pandemic preparedness."
  • Health official attends to a child suspected to be infected with Hepatitis E at a health centre in Kitgum. 12 October 2008.
    A medical officer attends to a child suspected to be infected with Hepatitis E at a health centre in Kitgum
  • Food aid convoys have repeatedly been attacked by criminal gangs and insurgents.

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