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  • A sensitization board on AIDS in one of the main streets of Bouaké, centre of Cote d'Ivoire.
  • Orphans and other needy children come to Nanga Vhutshilo Positive Living in Soweto twice a day for meals.
    Orphans and other needy children come to Nanga Vhutshilo Positive Living in Soweto
  • Aid from UK being unloaded from a cargo plane in Burma. May 2008.
  • Egypt's northwest coast is contaminated with approximately 17 million landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) from World War II
  • In a massive effort, 19 million children under five years of age were given a dose of vitamin A at more than 144,000 outreach centres across the country on 10 May 2008.
  • In a massive effort, 19 million children under five years of age were given a dose of vitamin A at more than 144,000 outreach centres across the country on 10 May 2008.
  • Each year, 277,000 children in Bangladesh do not live long enough to see their fifth birthday.
  • Each year, 277,000 children in Bangladesh do not live  long enough to see their fifth birth day.
  • Philip Alston called on different warring parties in Afghanistan to immediately cease unlawful killings of civilians.
  • A map of Myanmar and surrounding countries highlighting the Irrawaddy delta, which accounts for about 65 percent of Myanmar’s annual rice production.
  • With no other modes of transport available, this young man has chosen to carry an old woman on his back. The elderly are among the most vulnerable groups of people in a disaster.
  • Medical supplies are urgently needed as local stocks have been destroyed or depleted.
  • A father giving his son something to drink as they sit on board a ferry. Lack of safe drinking water is a major problem and reports of diarrhoea are increasing.
  • Water is only receding slowly and new rainfall is forecast for the next days. With no access to safe drinking water, many survivors are forced to drink from murky, brown water that carries the corpses of livestock and former neighbours.
  • Stagnant water pools, like those in front of these houses, are an ideal breeding ground for malaria-carrying mosquitos.
  • A map of Indonesia.
  • A fistula patient at the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia.
  • buying beans at Dawanau grains market in Kano.
  • In Bogalay, on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, about 95 per cent of the houses were destroyed. Up to 10,000 people are feared to have died in this town alone.
  • Homes in many districts have taken a battering and flood waters in places are showing little sign of receding.
  • Thousands of people in Saada are in need of humanitarian aid, said ICRC office in Yemen.
  • A hungry woman grabs her first meal in a long time at a Yangon shelter housing hundreds of people, which is being supported by Myanmar Red Cross.
  • Children play in front of the studio of Radio Infantil in Alto Molócue, Zambézia province, Mozambique.
  • Regular consumption of bread contaminated by alkaloids causes rapidly filling ascites, severe abdominal pain, vomiting and inconsistent jaundice, health experts say.
  • Children participate in one of the live programs.
  • Charmak disease – also known as camel belly - is caused by exposure to pyrrolizidine alkaloids which is found in Charmak weed which grows in grain fields, WHO says.
  • Children talk about HIV on radio program promoted by Danish NGO Ibis in Mozambique.
  • Cadres of Samyukta Jankranti Party learn how to use arms in Saptari district, 500 km east of Kathmandu.
  • Shahed ul-Islam, 22, moved to Dhaka in search of work in 2005 from a village in the western district of Bogra, but following an injury he cannot get a proper job and begs instead.
  • Women sift precious rice in southern Madagascar.
  • Women sift precious rice in southern Madagascar.
  • Many Filippino rice farmers have to borrow money for fertilizer and other inputs and repay their loans with substantial portions of their rice harvest, leaving them little money on which to live.
    Many Filippino rice farmers have to borrow money for fertilizer and other inputs and repay their loans with substantial portions of their rice harvest, leaving them little money on which to live.

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