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  • Esraa Eawaidu, a midwife, weighs Yusraa Swaisee on a scale in the prenatal department of a clinic in Shejaiya, a neighborhood of Gaza City that was hard hit by the Israeli military during the 2014 war. The clinic is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. This clinic has twice been destroyed by Israeli air strikes, but each time has been rebuilt by DSPR.
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  • A father looks at his newborn son in Nkwaranga Lutheran Hospital near Arusha.
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  • Protestors demand better treatment for caregivers and health workers at the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, saying "When health workers suffer, society suffers". As part of the demonstration, protestors perform stunt where a person gets her tears forcefully wiped from her face using a white cloth.
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  • At the Ahli Arabi Hospital in Gaza City, technician Saeda Jondia adjusts the x-ray machine to take a mammogram of Ibtesam Al-Zein, a 42-year old woman from Beit Lahia. The hospital is a member of the ACT Alliance Palestine Forum. The effects of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which prevents adequate technology and medicines from reaching the territory, as well as inhibits the ability of medical personnel to study outside Gaza, has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women. Sixty percent of all cases of breast cancer in Gaza are diagnosed at a late stage, when the cancer has already spread. In Israel, this figure is only 5 to 7 percent..
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  • Job Mwainyaga, an orthopaedic technologist runs the orthopaedic workshop there. Usa River Rehabilitation Centre and farm, near Arusha, is run by ACT member ELCT.
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  • Protestors demand better treatment for caregivers and health workers at the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, saying "When health workers suffer, society suffers".
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  • A feeding tube helps a malnourished child hang on to life in the stabilization ward of the Ifo Camp Hospital in the Dadaab refugee complex in northeastern Kenya.
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  • Yusra Darabee, 16, is attended by nurse Nader Ayesh in the Paediatric Dialysis Department of the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem. The Augusta Victoria Hospital is located on the southern side of Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem and is run by the Lutheran World Federation, LWF. The hospital provides hemodialysis for patients in the West Bank with renal deficiency.
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  • 2 March 2017, Morija, Maseru district, Lesotho: This child, sleeping next to the hospital's incubation machines, is called a "lost and found" by the nurses. The child was found 7 days ago, crying alone in a field near the hospital. The hospital has taken the child in for care, the police are trying the locate the child's family, and a social worker has been assigned to the case. The child is a suspected orphan. ”It’s rare to find orphans like this, but it’s not the first time” say the nurses at Scott's. Scott Hospital is run by the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa and is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. It is located in the village of Morija, and operates and supervises clinics in the Maseru District of Lesotho. Scott started out as a dispensary in 1864, and today offers comprehensive healthcare Mondays-Fridays, as well as pharmaceutical services around the clock. Lesotho suffers from high numbers in Tuberculosis in disesase and mortality, and so the hospital screens all patients for TB. The hospital observes among many patients what they describe as ”low health-seeking behaviour”, services are increasing and demand rising, but space and human resources are a challenge, as is funding. I key concern is one of infrastructure, where the original design of the hospital matches poorly with current needs, as departments and buildings are scattered, posing a challenge for security. Another challenge is to adapt donation structures, so as to be able to receive payments electronically. The hospital has one ambulance, which they describe as not enough, but what they have. Another challenge is that lack of funds affects maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, as the immediate care of patients take priority. PLEASE NOTE: This photo is not to be used in social media.
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  • Dr. Saba Ghawi, a pediatrician, examines a young patient in a clinic in Madaba, a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan that has grown in recent years with the arrival of refugees from war-torn Syria. The clinic is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A patient is injected on the Hematology Ward of the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem. On his hand is written the word 'Hope'. The Augusta Victoria Hospital is located on the southern side of Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem and is run by the Lutheran World Federation, LWF.
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  • 2 March 2017, Morija, Maseru district, Lesotho: Scott Hospital is run by the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa and is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. It is located in the village of Morija, and operates and supervises clinics in the Maseru District of Lesotho. Scott started out as a dispensary in 1864, and today offers comprehensive healthcare Mondays-Fridays, as well as pharmaceutical services around the clock. Lesotho suffers from high numbers in Tuberculosis in disesase and mortality, and so the hospital screens all patients for TB. The hospital observes among many patients what they describe as ”low health-seeking behaviour”, services are increasing and demand rising, but space and human resources are a challenge, as is funding. I key concern is one of infrastructure, where the original design of the hospital matches poorly with current needs, as departments and buildings are scattered, posing a challenge for security. Another challenge is to adapt donation structures, so as to be able to receive payments electronically. The hospital has one ambulance, which they describe as not enough, but what they have. Another challenge is that lack of funds affects maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, as the immediate care of patients take priority. PLEASE NOTE: This photo is not to be used in social media.
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  • Nurse Fozya Al-Bike comforts three-year old Aya Ali, in the Hekma Hospital in Misrata, Libya. The girl was seriously injured on June 12 when a wall, weakened by combat in her neighborhood between rebels and troops loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, fell on top of her. She suffered a concussion, broken pelvis, broken leg, and other injuries. On her bed is a Koran. Fighting has raged in or near Misrata for months.
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  • Hiba Houshieh, technician at the Cancer Treatment Centre of the Augusta Victoria Hospital, directs a radiotherapy session from her control panel. The Augusta Victoria Hospital is located on the southern side of Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem and is run by the Lutheran World Federation, LWF.
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  • Participants attach pins to a map, indicating the places people lived, which they knew died from AIDS. During a July 19 interfaith prayer service, held at the Roman Catholic Emmanuel Cathedral in Durban, South Africa, during the 2016 International AIDS Conference.
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  • Amal Rashid, a 50-year old breast cancer patient hoping for a referral to treatment in Israel, gets a visit from her doctors on the oncology ward of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Examining her x-ray is Dr. Ramy Meqdad (left) and Dr. Mohamed Al-Sadeq. Treating cancer patients here is a challenge for health care professionals. Patients suffer from a chronic shortage of several medicines because of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Replacement parts for medical technology are often blocked. Visas are virtually impossible to obtain for continuing education outside of Gaza for health workers. And only a small percentage of patients referred to hospitals in the West Bank, Jerusalem, or Israel are granted permission by the Israeli authorities to leave..
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  • Mamadouba Conté processed blood samples in the Ebola lab at Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea as part of the Ebola vaccine clinical trials.
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  • "Young people are being left out and left behind in the AIDS response and it needs to stop here and now." said Sir Elton John, as he and Prince Harry joined forces at the International AIDS Conference 2016 in Durban, South Africa, on Thursday 21 July. Sir Elton then wrote on the "Pro Test" wall the phrase "Love is vital, July 2016".
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  • Nurse Joyce Agutu conducts cervical cancer screening on a woman in the Shirati Hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.
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  • Team nine of the WHO Ebola vaccine trial at work in Guinea.
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  • Protestors demand better treatment for caregivers and health workers at the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, saying "When health workers suffer, society suffers".
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  • Samar Yunis smiles shortly after giving birth to a baby boy at St. Luke's Hospital in Nablus. The hospital is run by the Anglican Church.
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  • An injection of the trial vaccine for Ebola is administered to a participant in the vaccine trial in Katongourou, Guinea. <br />
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The World Health Organisation is running phase III clinical trials for Ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea. The technique being used is "ring vaccination" which was used in the 1970s to eradicate smallpox.
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  • 2 March 2017, Ma Mafefooane Valley, Lesotho: Dr N. G. Suaka at work at Saint Joseph's Hospital. Here, inspecting available drugs from the drug trolley of injectable drugs. Saint Joseph’s Hospital is a district hospital in the Ma Mafefooane Valley in Lesotho. The hospital was established in 1937 and is run as a Roman Catholic non-profit institution by the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. As a district hospital, it offers comprehensive healthcare including male, female, paediatric, Tuberculosis and maternity care. It is closely linked with the neighbouring Roma College of Nursing, which runs on similar premises as part of the same institution. Drug supplies are secured to the hospital by means of a Memorandum of Understanding with the government.
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  • Comboni Sister Marianna Santin and Comboni Sister Maria Martinelli, both Italian physicians, operate on a patient in the St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • The drill for destroying the Ebola virus where medical staff come in contact with confirmed cases is strict routine, one small mistake and the infection can be passed on. Staff in PPE, are often close to being overcome by the heat and dehydration, and sometimes need to be shouted instructions like "raise your head up" as each part of the drill is gone through, a series of specific movements as they are sprayed with a bleach solution and each part of the protective clothing is peeled off in the right order and in the right direction, and put straight in the incineration bucket, even the ground where they stand is considered contaminated and has to be covered in bleach. Eventually, a very grateful and completely sweat-sodden worker emerges from inside.
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  • 24 July 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: "Are you swallowing pharma's lies?" ask protestors in the Exhibition area of the International AIDS Conference 2018, AIDS 2018, as they visit the Abbott company's exhibition area. The group carry out a "Bad Pharma Tour", showcasing pharmaceutical companies' whose humble slogans about good life prospects, say the protestors, do not match up with the way the companies maintain high prices and questionable ethics in order to produce revenue and offer high wages for CEOs and other company representatives.
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  • Nurse Jazmine Gino-Gino (right) checks the flow on an IV she just inserted in the hand of ten-month old Johan in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. Holding the boy down is Nurse Brian Grape Maningding. Johan's mother, Mirakel Guarin, comforts the boy.<br />
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The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • During the phase III Ebola vaccine trial in Guinea, serum was separated from red blood cells for Ebola tests in Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: A young boy receives emergency treatment at the Ganta Hospital. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Nyanthak Arop Mahadi, a midwife, examines Nyanayuk Monykuch Yal in the Caritas clinic in Mading Achueng, a village in Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. Under a 2005 peace agreement, the region was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of the Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. Yet more than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees.
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  • Kimberley Steeds in the Ebola vaccine lab at Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea. <br />
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The World Health Organisation is running phase III clinical trials for Ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea. The technique being used is "ring vaccination" which was used in the 1970s to eradicate smallpox.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: A nurse waits for medicine at the pharmacy of Ganta Hospital. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Nurse Nacima Keni examines a patient in the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Keni is a 2015 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • The World Health Organisation is running phase III clinical trials for ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea. The technique being used is "ring vaccination" which was used in the 1970s to eliminate smallpox.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: Nurse Junior Dahu checks the hematocrit level in a blood sample in the Ganta Hospital lab. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • A child is weighed and measured as part of a wellness program at the Shungu Memorial Health Center in Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The center is funded by the United Methodist Church.
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  • Allasane Coumbassa, at the Conakry City Morgue. The morgue dealt with many Ebola deaths, Ousmane complained of inadequate protective measures, clothing or waste management to deal with the Ebola .
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: 27-year-old John Kwekeh is receiving treatment at Ganta Hospital for a dislocated shoulder. He was brushing grass near his home when he injured his arm. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Adele Kavira Saasita wears protective clothing in a clinic in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. She is a nurse in the clinic, which is supported by IMA World Health and the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • A box with child-sized body bags at the Nongo Ebola Treatment Centre, Conakry, Guinea. <br />
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At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
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Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
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She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
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Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: 38-year-old Rachel Zackpah tends to her two-day-old child in the ward at Ganta Hospital. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Eight-year old Zacarias Moses is carried unconscious into the Wau Teaching Hospital, in Wau, South Sudan, by his grandmother on September 27, 2012. Suffering from malaria, he died the next day. The health care system in the world's newest country remains woefully deficient, suffering a lack of trained personnel and resources.
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  • Lymphatic filariasis patient, Braja Bandhu Behera, in Dhalapathar, Orissa. Foot care programme run by CASA with support from IMA and CDC.
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  • 1 December 2017, Geneva, Switzerland: On World AIDS Day 2017, the World Council of Churches – Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (WCC-EAA) brought together representatives of faith-based organizations as well as public sector and inter-governmental organizations at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 1 December. The event saw a commemorative prayer service, an interactive art exhibition, and a round table discussion on how to improve access to testing and treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV, particularly by means of education. During the morning prayers, participants lit candles of hope, for those who live with HIV today, and in memory of those who have been lost to the disease.
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  • As the worried mother looks on, nurse Asma El Shami weighs a child in the pediatric department of the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. The Anglican Church-affiliated hospital is a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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The 2014 war provoked serious damage to Gaza's health infrastructure. Seventeen hospitals, 56 primary health care facilities and 45 ambulances were damaged or destroyed. Sixteen health care workers were killed and 83, most of them ambulance drivers and volunteers, were injured.
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  • Bonita Noyok annoints the feet of a woman with malarial filariasis in Khurda, Odisha, with antibacterial ointment.
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  • 6 December 2018, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States: Biweekly “chairobics” session, aerobics for people with limited mobility, in the Rockwell African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  • A nurse measures the height of a child in the pediatric department of the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. The Anglican Church-affiliated hospital is a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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The 2014 war provoked serious damage to Gaza's health infrastructure. Seventeen hospitals, 56 primary health care facilities and 45 ambulances were damaged or destroyed. Sixteen health care workers were killed and 83, most of them ambulance drivers and volunteers, were injured. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • While the Ebola vaccine was trialled it had to be kept at a temperature of minus 60 degrees celsius, these Arktek passive vaccine storage devices use jet fuel to keep the right temperature for up to five days in the field, even being opened several times a day. Here a vaccine core is being inserted into the device.
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  • 2 March 2017, Ma Mafefooane Valley, Lesotho: Saint Joseph’s Hospital is a district hospital in the Ma Mafefooane Valley in Lesotho. The hospital was established in 1937 and is run as a Roman Catholic non-profit institution by the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. As a district hospital, it offers comprehensive healthcare including male, female, paediatric, Tuberculosis and maternity care. It is closely linked with the neighbouring Roma College of Nursing, which runs on similar premises as part of the same institution. Drug supplies are secured to the hospital by means of a Memorandum of Understanding with the government.
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  • Lab technician Jaber El-Qrinawi draws blood from a patient in a clinic in Rafah, in the south of Gaza. The clinic is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
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  • Bonita Noyok washes the feet of a woman with malarial filariasis in Khurda, Odisha.
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  • 16 June 2017, Nairobi, Kenya: On 16 June, more than 500 people gathered to commemorate the Day of the African Child in Nairobi, Kenya, and to speak up publicly for the rights of children and adolescents living with HIV. Religious leaders from a range of different faith communities and traditions led a march through the streets of Nairobi, from the All Saints Cathedral to Ufungamano House, accompanied by hundreds of youth and young children from local faith-sponsored schools, after which a ceremony was held where the religious leaders committed publicly to work for children's rights to HIV testing, access to treatment, and freedom from stigma and discrimination, to make sure that those who are in need of treatment are also able to stay on treatment. The day was organized by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Advocay Alliance together with Inerela+ Kenya, with contributions from a range of other partners. At end of the ceremony, the WCC-EAA launched a global Call to Action entitled "Act now for children and adolescents living with HIV", which was signed by the range of religious leaders.
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  • Pills are distributed to a student in a public school in Vikuge, Tanzania. The pills include Praziquantel and Albendazole.
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  • An HIV test is run in the laboratory at Nkwaranga Lutheran Hospital, near Arusha.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: A male patient at the Ganta United Methodist Hospital prepares a meal. The hospital provides kitchen facilities for patients who wish to cook for themselves during their stay. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Midwife Alice Jennifer examines Aneyma Ayate in the Global Refuge International Clinic at Odoubu in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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Ayate fled to Uganda from Morobo, South Sudan, in 2016.<br />
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The clinic receives support from the Global Health Program of The United Methodist Church.
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  • Jesus Waiting to Die. <br />
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Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz <br />
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"I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
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I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
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I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war." <br />
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The health service in Honduras has been affected by large-scale embezzlement by senior government officials including the substitution of medical pharmaceuticals with tablets made of flour.<br />
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Jesus died peacefully at home in April.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: Thomas Freeman, a diabetic patient at Ganta Hospital, rests in the arms of his caretaker Maibee Freeman. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • The height and weight of displaced children is carefully monitored at a nutrition and health center in the Um Labassa IDP Camp in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • 2 March 2017, Ma Mafefooane Valley, Lesotho: Saint Joseph’s Hospital is a district hospital in the Ma Mafefooane Valley in Lesotho. The hospital was established in 1937 and is run as a Roman Catholic non-profit institution by the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. As a district hospital, it offers comprehensive healthcare including male, female, paediatric, Tuberculosis and maternity care. It is closely linked with the neighbouring Roma College of Nursing, which runs on similar premises as part of the same institution. Drug supplies are secured to the hospital by means of a Memorandum of Understanding with the government.
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  • A man uses an infrared thermometer to check the temperature of visitors to a clinic in Goma, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since a deadly outbreak of Ebola in 2018, health authorities in the region have instituted strict measures to prevent the spread of the disease. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • 2 March 2017, Ma Mafefooane Valley, Lesotho: The Roma College of Nursing offers a skills lab for their nursing and midwifery students. The Roma College of Nursing is a Roman Catholic non-profit institution under the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. The college educates nurses and midwives, and is situated adjacent to Saint Joseph’s Hospital in the Ha Mafefooane Valley, some 35 kilometers from Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The school forms an integral part of Saint Joseph’s Hospital, where the students acquire essential parts of their hands-on training. The school was founded in 1972, and is open to candidates of any gender and various religious backgrounds. Applications are also open to students from other countries. Most students begin their studies at the age of 19-20. Most are from Lesotho, but some are international. The college hosts a total of some 120 students. Four out of five are women. Through sponsorship from ICAP and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI), which draws funds from PEPFAR, the school maintains a library and a skills laboratory specifically designed to improve nursing education in Lesotho. There are six nursing training institutions in Lesotho in total, of which four are denominational as part of the Christian Health Association of Lesotho, and thus owned by the churches. Two institutions are public, run by the government.
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  • A street sign advertises the availability of male circumcision at a public clinic in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Male circumcision has been touted by many health experts as tool in lowering the AIDS transmission rate.
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  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Left to right: Kamohelo Tiheli, Retselisitsoe Sekoati, Scott Ramoriting, and Khotso Moleli. Staff from the Blue Cross Rehabilitation Centre for patients suffering from alcohol or drug abuse, visit the mountain of Thaba Bosiu ('Night Mountain'), in Lesotho. The rehabilitation centre is the only one of its kind in the country. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
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  • Lab technician Kamal Jad Alla takes blood from an unhappy boy in a clinic in Darraj, a neighborhood of Gaza City that was hard hit by the Israeli military during the 2014 war. The clinic is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
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  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Ntaoleng Tlali from the village of Thaba Bosiu visits the mountain of Thaba Bosiu ('Night Mountain') shortly after being in a car accident, after which she is wearing neck support as a precaution against further complications. She is wearing a tsetse, a traditional hat commonly used in Lesotho. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
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  • Both mother and child react as Mactivity Chima immunizes a child in Kalikumbi, Malawi, where the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian has helped families stay healthy.
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  • 16 June 2017, Nairobi, Kenya: Fr Joseph Mutie, from the Organization of African Instituted Churches in Kenya (middle) leads to way. On 16 June, more than 500 people gathered to commemorate the Day of the African Child in Nairobi, Kenya, and to speak up publicly for the rights of children and adolescents living with HIV. Religious leaders from a range of different faith communities and traditions led a march through the streets of Nairobi, from the All Saints Cathedral to Ufungamano House, accompanied by hundreds of youth and young children from local faith-sponsored schools, after which a ceremony was held where the religious leaders committed publicly to work for children's rights to HIV testing, access to treatment, and freedom from stigma and discrimination, to make sure that those who are in need of treatment are also able to stay on treatment. The day was organized by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Advocay Alliance together with Inerela+ Kenya, with contributions from a range of other partners. At end of the ceremony, the WCC-EAA launched a global Call to Action entitled "Act now for children and adolescents living with HIV", which was signed by the range of religious leaders.
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  • A boy washes his hands in a diluted bleach solution and gets his temperature checked before entering a church in Goma, a war-torn city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Such strict hygiene measures are common since the region experienced an outbreak of Ebola beginning in 2018. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • 16 June 2017, Nairobi, Kenya: Youth pastor Felix Mutiso from the Nairobi Calvari Temple. On 16 June, more than 500 people gathered to commemorate the Day of the African Child in Nairobi, Kenya, and to speak up publicly for the rights of children and adolescents living with HIV. Religious leaders from a range of different faith communities and traditions led a march through the streets of Nairobi, from the All Saints Cathedral to Ufungamano House, accompanied by hundreds of youth and young children from local faith-sponsored schools, after which a ceremony was held where the religious leaders committed publicly to work for children's rights to HIV testing, access to treatment, and freedom from stigma and discrimination, to make sure that those who are in need of treatment are also able to stay on treatment. The day was organized by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Advocay Alliance together with Inerela+ Kenya, with contributions from a range of other partners. At end of the ceremony, the WCC-EAA launched a global Call to Action entitled "Act now for children and adolescents living with HIV", which was signed by the range of religious leaders.
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  • Maha Haidar, a health and nutrition specialist with International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, feeds Plumpy'Nut to 11-month old Abdul as his mother, Rokaya Al Ali, holds him in the community health center in Kab Elias, a town in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley which has filled with Syrian refugees. Lebanon hosts some 1.5 million refugees from Syria, yet allows no large camps to be established. So refugees have moved into poor neighborhoods or established small informal settlements in border areas. International Orthodox Christian Charities provides support for the community clinic in Kab Elias, which serves many of the refugees. Plumpy'Nut is a specially formulated peanut-based food for treating severe acute malnutrition.
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  • 6 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: A group of women protest in support of sex workers' rights, in the Global Village area of ICASA 2017. The 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2017 gathers thousands of researchers, medical professionals, academics, activists and faith-based organizations from all over the world, all looking to overcome the HIV epidemic and eliminate AIDS as a public health threat.
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  • At the "House for the Dying", a hospice for AIDS patients and other seriously ill patients run by the Sisters of Charity in Port au Prince, Haiti, Sister Paula, a Spanish nun, supports a patient as she walks.
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  • 31 October 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Bishop Olivia Graham of Reading has her temperature checked as she goes through a health screening before entering Garnethill Synagogue for an interfaith gathering on the opening day or the United Nations Climate Change conference COP26 in Glasgow.
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