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  • KABUL 06 August 2005..Shabana poiting her finger to the camera....Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl, was originally diagnosed with 'Leishmaniasis' a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies; then with 'Hemangioma' a tumor made-up of dilated blood vessels that usually appears shortly after birth; and finally with 'Neurofibroma'  a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue [....]
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  • KABUL 06 August 2005....Shabana with her father.....Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl, was originally diagnosed with 'Leishmaniasis' a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies; then with 'Hemangioma' a tumor made-up of dilated blood vessels that usually appears shortly after birth; and finally with 'Neurofibroma'  a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue.
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  • KABUL 06 August 2005..Shabana poiting her finger to the camera....Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl, was originally diagnosed with 'Leishmaniasis' a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies; then with 'Hemangioma' a tumor made-up of dilated blood vessels that usually appears shortly after birth; and finally with 'Neurofibroma'  a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue [....]
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  • KABUL 06 August 2005....Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl, was originally diagnosed with 'Leishmaniasis' a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies; then with 'Hemangioma' a tumor made-up of dilated blood vessels that usually appears shortly after birth; and finally with 'Neurofibroma'  a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue..
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A young muslim woman is weeping and praying in front of the grave. She is looking at the palm of her hands burrying her sorrow in them..The legend says that 400-years-ago a couple died there in a divine way and went straight to heaven for eternal love. The place became sacred and locals believe that people are cured there by the grace of god.
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  • Tamil Nadu, INDIA. March1994..A man who has his feet chained to a tree is standing in his own urine. He is given some food on a banana leaf..This is the fate awaiting those, who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • Tamil Nadu, INDIA. March1994..A young man who has his head shaved is chained to the wall..This is the fate awaiting those, who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.An old woman is lying on the floor. She is wresting her head on her few belongings.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A woman is restraining her daughter while the father is throwing cold water over her. Another woman is watching the scene while the young woman keeps weeping.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A young woman is sitting on the floor looking at her chains..This is the fate awaiting those who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A young man chained to a tree is in distress. As he is standing in his own urine he is mumbling to himself.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery....Abib Ullah, one of the anesthetists.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital.....Doctors at the RSU are performing a four-hour operation on Shabana's face to remove her lump.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital.....Doctors at the RSU are performing a four-hour.. operation on Shabana's face to remove her lump.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital, Plastic surgery....Doctors at the RSU start to operate Shabana.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • Haudi, 05 March 2005... Zakti Pashad, a father of five children. For the last seven years he has been suffering from a horrible eye infection. "There are no doctors or hospitals around here. I went once to Nepalganj but the doctors were unable to help me. I was told to go to the Eyes Hospital in Kathmandu but I have no money, I can't afford it. Long time ago a doctor from the Royal Nepal Army's camp used to visit me, but because of the Maoists they have left and I can't get any medicines any more. Have you got any tablets for me?", the man says
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  • BAHARAK HOSPITAL, 28 July 2005..A nurse distributes free contraceptives.....UNFPA's project..
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  • BAHARAK HOSPITAL, 28 July 2005..Fathers are queueing at the Baharak Hospital's Laboratory to get their children visited by the local  Doctor.
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  • BAHARAK HOSPITAL, 28 July 2005..A child  gets his vaccination...The clinic provides vaccines against Tetanus, Polio, Thubercolosi, Measles and Diphtheria...Project supported by UNFPA
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  • BAHARAK HOSPITAL, 28 July 2005..A  mother hold her baby in the vaccination clinic...The clinic provides vaccines against Tetanus, Polio, Thubercolosi, Measles and Diphtheria...Project supported by UNFPA
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  • BAHARAK HOSPITAL, 28 July 2005...In the corridor of Baharak-Hospital, mothers wait for their children to get vaccinated. ..The clinic provides vaccines against Tetanus, Polio, Thubercolosi, Measles and Diphtheria...Project supported by UNFPA..
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  • FAIZABAD PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL, 27 July 2005..A child sits next to his mother.....According to United Nations Population Fund, Afghanistan has among the world?s highest rates of maternal mortality, and Badakhshan has the highest rates ever recorded anywhere in the world, with one mother dying in every 15 births. ..Lack of medical infrastructures is one of the primary causes of maternal mortality...
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital.....Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl is undergoing a four-hour  plastic surgery operation.....Shabana has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery....Shabana is ready to undergo a four-hour operation.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 14 August 2005....Shabana is admitted to Maiwand Hospital for Plastic Surgery.....Shabana. a nine months old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 03 August 2005..In a crowded street of Kabul, I come across a woman and a child with a dark lump on her face...The only words the woman says to me are:' DOCTOR.... DOCTOR'...I write down her name & address:.."Shabana, Panza Family, Khair-Khana, Kabul"
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  • BAHARAK, 28 July 2005..Mirwais Momad - on the left, and Farida Koshdil - far right, both from UNFPA, visit the vaccination clinic at Baharak Hospital...The clinic provides vaccines against Tetanus, Polio, Thubercolosi, Measles and Diphtheria...Project supported by UNFPA
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  • AFGHANISTAN ..BAHARACK HOSPITAL, 28 July 2005..Ice packs are used to keep the vaccines at a low temperature...The clinic provides vaccines against Tetanus, Polio, Thubercolosi, Measles and Diphtheria...Project supported by UNFPA..
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  • Tamil Nadu, INDIA. March1994..A man who has his hands and feet in chains is standing close to the wall which is covered with words/phrases..This is the fate awaiting those, who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • Tamil Nadu, INDIA. March1994..A man who has his hands and feet chained is standing upright looking obliviously in the distance. .This is the fate awaiting those, who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • Tamil Nadu, INDIA. March1994..A man who has his hands and feet in chains, is kneeling, lamenting..This is the fate awaiting those, who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • Tamil Nadu, INDIA. March1994..A man who has his hands and feet in chains is kneeling nacked on the floor. He keeps bending over lamenting. This is the fate awaiting those, who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A father is taking his daugther across the courtyard on a 'leash'. At the well she is going to be cleansed with 'holy water' which locals believe possess her body.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A young muslim woman is weeping and praying in front of a grave. The legend says that 400-years-ago a couple died there in a divine way and went straight to heaven for eternal love. The place became sacred and locals believe that people are cured there by the grace of god....
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A man is angrily throwing sand around him while people observe him from the distance.
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  • Tamil Nadu, INDIA. March1994..A man barely covered with a white cloth in chains is curling up like an infant. He has a dark mark on his upper leg..This is the fate awaiting those who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • Tamil Nadu, INDIA. March1994..A man has his feet chained to a wall..This is the fate awaiting those, who the locals believe are possessed by evil spirits.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A young woman in a state of surrender is lying on the ground after being forcefully cleansed by the 'holy water'. Locals believe that her body is possessed by evil spirits and faith is said to be the only remedy.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A young woman succumbs and gets to the ground. The father keeps throwing buckets of 'holy water' over her body. Locals believe that her body is possessed by evil spirits and that faith is said to be the only remedy.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A woman is restraining her daughter who is in chains. Meanwhile her father is throwing a bucket of water from the well over her body. This is meant to clean her from the evil spirits believed to possess her body..
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A man who is chained to a tree is looking at the camera. He is wearing a rosary around his neck.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A woman lying on the ground is wailing and rolling over in a state of distress.
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  • KABUL 03 August 2005..Walking in a crowded street of Kabul, I come across a woman carrying  a child with a dark lump on her face. ..The only words the woman says to me are:' DOCTOR.... DOCTOR'...I write down her name & address:.."Shabana, Panza Family, Khair-Khana, Kabul"
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery....Afghan Doctors are getting ready to operate Shabana.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital.....Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl is undergoing a four-hour  plastic surgery operation.....Shabana has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery....Shabana under total anesthesia.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery....Doctors at the RSU are performing a four-hour  operation on Shabana's face.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery....Doctors at the RSU are performing a four-hour operation on Shabana's face.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital.....Doctors at the RSU are performing a four-hour  operation on Shabana's face to remove her lump.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital.....Doctors at the RSU are performing a four-hour  operation on Shabana's face to remove her lump.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..
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  • KABUL 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital....Shabana is getting a total anesthesia.....Shabana. a nine months  old Afghan girl, has been diagnosed with a 'neurofibroma'. This is a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue. It is an inherited disorder. If left unchecked, a neurofibroma can cause severe nerve damage leading to loss of function to the area stimulated by that nerve.....The Rehabilitative Surgery Unit (RSU) at Maiwand Hospital is fully supported by the French NGO Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans (MRCA), also by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Embassy of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project (GAGP). The Italian NGO Operation Smile Italia Onlus provides training to the Doctors. ....Maiwand Hospital dates back to the rein of Nadir Shah in the 1930s.
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  • BAHARAK HOSPITAL, 28 July 2005...In the corridor  mothers wait for their children to get vaccinated. A nurse writes down their names.....The clinic provides children immunization against Tetanus, Polio, Thubercolosi and Diphtheria...The clinic is supported by UNFPA
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.A woman in chains is taken by her parents to the well to be cleansed of the 'evil spirtis". Another woman is lying on the ground lamenting.
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  • TAMIL NADU, MARCH 1994.Several women are gathering around food pots. They are usually family members who visit the 'patients'. They bring them food and try to cleanse them of the evil spirits believed to possess their bodies.
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN 2005 - SHABANA'S CASE The old man with no legs implores Allah. A young woman sits in the middle of a crowded street with four kids half-asleep, while vehicles of all kinds drive through the roads of Kabul.[short/long]..A mother wearing the turquoise chador walks towards the bus station with a baby on her harms. She is a nine months old girl with dark blond hair, green luminous eyes and an abnormal and painful abscess on her face. ..Her name is Shabana from Kair Khana and the woman behind the burka is her mother. I ask her what is wrong with the face of her child but she only comes out with "Doctor.... Doctor" and lets me write down her name and address.....My initial thought was to get in touch with the Kabul-based NGOs by sending a picture of Shabana with her details, but back to the hotel I remembered the case of Zakti, a father of five children from Kalikot-Nepal. ..Zakti did have his left cheekbone and part of his skull exposed because of an unknown disease. International charity health organizations were unable to do anything for him. They couldn?t tell him what his disease was. So, the next day I went straight to Shabana?s village in Kair Khana and a few hours later I meet Janat, Shabana's Father. He explained that his daughter was born with a very little spot on her right cheek and was diagnosed with Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of a female sandfly. Afghanistan has the largest amount of cutaneous leishmaniasis cases in the world with an estimate of 200,000 people affected, including 67,500 in the capital alone. But leishmaniasis was not what Shabana was suffering from.....We approached the United Nation?s Population Fund in Kabul, but apart from telling us the names of childrens? Hospitals in Kabul, there was nothing they could do for her.....We then decided to take Shabana to a Specialist for a consultation and meet Dr. Waheed Ahmad from Jamhoriat Hospital, who referred us to the Head of Dermatology of Avencin
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN 2005 - SHABANA'S CASE The old man with no legs implores Allah. A young woman sits in the middle of a crowded street with four kids half-asleep, while vehicles of all kinds drive through the roads of Kabul.[short/long]..A mother wearing the turquoise chador walks towards the bus station with a baby on her harms. She is a nine months old girl with dark blond hair, green luminous eyes and an abnormal and painful abscess on her face. ..Her name is Shabana from Kair Khana and the woman behind the burka is her mother. I ask her what is wrong with the face of her child but she only comes out with "Doctor.... Doctor" and lets me write down her name and address.....My initial thought was to get in touch with the Kabul-based NGOs by sending a picture of Shabana with her details, but back to the hotel I remembered the case of Zakti, a father of five children from Kalikot-Nepal. ..Zakti did have his left cheekbone and part of his skull exposed because of an unknown disease. International charity health organizations were unable to do anything for him. They couldn?t tell him what his disease was. So, the next day I went straight to Shabana?s village in Kair Khana and a few hours later I meet Janat, Shabana's Father. He explained that his daughter was born with a very little spot on her right cheek and was diagnosed with Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of a female sandfly. Afghanistan has the largest amount of cutaneous leishmaniasis cases in the world with an estimate of 200,000 people affected, including 67,500 in the capital alone. But leishmaniasis was not what Shabana was suffering from.....We approached the United Nation?s Population Fund in Kabul, but apart from telling us the names of childrens? Hospitals in Kabul, there was nothing they could do for her.....We then decided to take Shabana to a Specialist for a consultation and meet Dr. Waheed Ahmad from Jamhoriat Hospital, who referred us to the Head of Dermatology of Avencin
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  • A young girl with a skin infection. "The infection will go away in a few years time, it is not a serious disease" her father says. "If you see your child dying because of lack of medicines, you became a revolutionary. In the remote areas there are not any kind of facilities. What people can do rather than to join the rebels (the Maoist)? The rebels will take care of them", Surendra Aryal, editor of The telegraph weekly, says.
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  • KABUL 06 August 2005.Shabana poiting her finger to the camera...Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl, was originally diagnosed with 'Leishmaniasis' a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies; then with 'Hemangioma' a tumor made-up of dilated blood vessels that usually appears shortly after birth; and finally with 'Neurofibroma' a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue
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  • A young man suffering from a skin disease asks, very quietly, for help.
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  • Kalikot, remote area, 5 March 2005. ..A young girl with a skin infection. "The infection will go away in a few years time, it is not a serious disease" her father says. "If you see your child dying because of lack of medicines, you became a revolutionary. In the remote areas there are not any kind of facilities. What people can do rather than to join the rebels (the Maoist)? The rebels will take care of them", Surendra Aryal, editor of The telegraph weekly, says.
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  • KABUL 06 August 2005..MAIWAND HOSPITAL..Shabana sister sits behind her father in the pre-registration room. ....Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl, was originally diagnosed with 'Leishmaniasis' a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies; then with 'Hemangioma' a tumor made-up of dilated blood vessels that usually appears shortly after birth; and finally with 'Neurofibroma'  a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue
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  • Nepalganj, 20 February 2005.  At 3 kilometres from the India, the Armed Police Force are checking locals for hand grenades. Most of the Maoist leaders are based in India. ------ "India wants instability in Nepal, but its role is vital for our country" Tara Nath Dahal, president of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, says. -------- "India is disease, but also medicine" Surendra Aryal, editor of The Telegraph weekly, says
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