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  • A young mother, carrying her baby, stands in the doorway of her home made of corrugated iron sheeting, beside the Lome lagoon, Lome, Togo, 29 November 2007. Conditions in Togo have deteriorated since the European Union cut off aid 14 years ago. However, a
  • Severely malnourished 10-month-old Carine Omle in the paediatric section of the main hospital in Lome, Togo, 29 November 2007.  A study by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in 2006 classified malnutrition rates in two regions in the north of the country a
  • Professor Muhammad Yunus.
  • Shafiz Sliman Atal, 70, a father of nine and grandfather of 26, from Zanouta in the Dhariya district of Hebron.
  • Chair: Dr Carla Sutherland, Ford foundation addressing the symposium.
  • Women in Patuakhali District line up for relief assistance following Cyclone Sidr, which struck southwestern Bangladesh on 15 November, killing over 3,000 and leaving millions homeless.
  • Men in the village of Boro Bighai, southwestern Bangladesh, line up for government assistance after Cyclone Sidr slammed into the country on 15 November. More than 3,000 people were killed and millions left homeless.
  • Shafiz Sliman Atal, 70, a father of nine and grandfather of 26, from Zanouta in the Dhariya district of Hebron.
  • Shepherds and farmers from south Hebron.
  • The village of Naya Para in Barguna District was devastated by Cyclone Sidr, which slammed into southwestern Bangladesh,November 2007.
  • Lalmiah Bepari, 55, says food prices have already increased following cyclone Sidr on 15 November 2007.
  • Mohammad Hasan, 12, of Kanchonbaria village in Patuakhali District lost both his two sisters, his brother and both parents, when cyclone Sidr struck the southwestern coast of Bangladesh on 15 November. More than 3,000 people were killed and millions rende
  • Mohammad Hasan, 12, of Kanchonbaria village in Patuakhali District lost both his two sisters, his brother and both parents, when cyclone Sidr struck the southwestern coast of Bangladesh on 15 November. More than 3,000 people were killed and millions rende
  • Mother and children in Burkina Faso. Giving birth is a game of roulette as the country has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world
    Three million children lack birth certificates in Burkina Faso (file photo)
  • Heroin 2.
  • Heroin.
  • Times Square, a bar in Yeoville, Johannesburg. The neighbourhood is a hot spot for drugs and allegedly controlled by foreign national syndicates according to local police.
  • Hillbrow, Johannesburg, blocks away from the now defunct Sands hotel, rumoured to be one of the city's few spots for buying heroin.
  • Graphic showing drug trafficking routes as well as countries reporting increased heroin use in 2005. (UNODC World Drug Report) 2007.
  • A wave of orthodoxy has swept across large portions of Pakistan's NWFP, seriously affecting girls education.
  • A helicopter deliverying much needed relief supplies in cyclone-affected Bangladesh. More than 3,000 people were killed and millions left homeless by Cyclone Sidr, which slammed into southwestern Bangladesh on 15 November 2007.
  • An aerial view of inner-city Johannesburg.
  • A mother and her child in cyclone-affected Patuakhali District, southern Bangladesh. Infants, young children and pregnant and lactating women are most vulnerable to malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies because their nutritional requirements are gre
  • Over six years after international intervention, many Afghans still suffer food insecurity and many other humanitarian problems.
  • New tools will help this single mother work her land and recover from the drought.
  • A Harare man joins the queue to vaccinate his son at Mupedzanhamo market in Mbare. It is not common in Zimbabwe for men to be seen taking their children to health institutions.
  • An unidentified mother from Mbare holds her baby as they receive the polio vaccination. According to UNICEF, since the implementation of (CHDs), Zimbabwe has not reported a single case of polio since 1990 and reported cases of suspected measles have dropp
    Stock outs of essential medicines are now rare
  • A nurse at Mbare poly clinic preparers to record the weight of a baby into the Child Health Card before they are vaccinated. All babies have to be weighed before they are vaccinated.
    There is one doctor per 100,000 people in Malawi, while in the United States there are 256 doctors per 100,000, (WHO).
  • In the absence of an organised collection service in Brazzaville, rubbish is often dumped very close to human habitations.
  • Displacement in the Terai is increasing due to escalating ethnic tension.
  • A rural household in Nepal.
  • Filipino residents of Bicol Region prepared for Typhoon Mina which threatened to come ashore as a “super typhoon” with winds of more than 220 kph. The government ordered the evacuation of an unprecedented number of people - some 250,000 in all.

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