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 Nurse Manuel Mohammed prepares a syringe of quinine dichlorhydrate, an ineffective yet standard treatment for malaria at the Manhica Health Center in Mozambique. (Globe Staff Photo / Bill Greene) |
Photos from Mozambique
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DECEMBER 28, 2003
Amid the death, new hopeOf the 24,000 people worldwide who die needlessly every day of preventable diseases, more than 3,000 are victims of malaria, according to the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund.DECEMBER 18, 2003
In Bolivia, smaller families spur hopesIn a largely unheralded trend, birth rates in developing countries around the world have declined steadily over the last several decades.NOVEMBER 23, 2003
Losing hope in AppalachiaThis is the story in McDowell County, West Virginia: People are dying at younger ages, dying from a lack of care and, in many cases, from a loss of hope. |
SEPTEMBER 17, 2003
Community health effort gains in HaitiAnd had it not been for a simple suggestion from a specially trained fellow villager -- go see the doctor -- Elmanie Joseph might now be lying in the dark of her ramshackle Haiti home, on the verge of hemorrhaging. Instead, her father had helped her make the seven-hour trek to the clinic, where doctors now raced to save her life.AUGUST 13, 2003
In Africa, hope emergesSenegal, an impoverished nation of 10 million people on Africa's west coast, has shown how AIDS can be held at bay in places where the disease is a persistent, voracious killer. In 12 other African countries, more than 10 percent of people ages 15 to 49 are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In Senegal, the infection rate has never risen above 2 percent; its prevention efforts have saved tens of thousands of lives. |
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None of them had to die
Yesterday, 24,000 people worldwide could have been saved with basic care. The same number could have been saved the day before, and the day before that. In all, over the last year, 8.8 million lives were lost needlessly to preventable diseases, infections, and childbirth complications.
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Five years after the end of a civil war, the greatest threats are children's restless coughs, villages without clean water, and malnutrition among expectant mothers. As post-Soviet Russia struggles to rebuild its health care system, tuberculosis infections have more than tripled, and a drug-resistant strain of the disease is flourishing. 
ZambiaThroughout sub-Saharan Africa, successful health programs operate in isolation. One neighborhood project provides patients with medicine, attention, and jobs. |
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This southern African nation once had an aggressive vaccination program, but is now caught in a storm of deadly diseases, fueled by the AIDS crisis. It is one of the wealthiest countries in Central America, but Guatemala's health care system struggles with a child mortality rate that is among the highest in the region. |
