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  • Jammu & Kashmir: Srinagar 1994<br />
Photoreportage by Kash Gabriele Torsello
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  • Jammu & Kashmir: Srinagar 1994<br />
Photoreportage by Kash Gabriele Torsello
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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 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, 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, 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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  • JURM HOSPITAL, 28 July 2005..The keeper of Jurm Hospital is standing in 'what will be' the maternity ward...This two-floor hospital has been fully refurbished by WHO and UNFPA. The building has not been used for the last 2/3 years because, apparently, there are no doctors. ....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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  • BADAKHSHAN, 30 July 2005....According 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.
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  • YAFTAL PAYAN, 31 July 2005..Bitha Bala Vocational Traning Course. ..A young lady smiles behind her white veil.....The VTC aim is to make women aware of their onwn status as Mother and as Woman, by giving lessons on maternity, reproductive health, family planning and post-natal issues. ....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. Underage marriage is one of the primary causes of maternal mortality.....The VTC is funded by UNFPA and implemented by IBNSINA.
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  • YAFTAL PAYAN, 31 July 2005..German soldiers/ISAF having some food at Bitha Bala's guest house...They came here to meet the head of the village who, apparently, is not there...Ralph - on the left - says that their duty is to look at the life conditions of the villagers and to report it to the reconstruction team. .."The aim is to cooordinate the work of all NGOs operating in Afghanistan" he adds.
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  • Kabul on the road. .A young Afghan sells fuel for motor vehicle
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  • Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery Unit. ..A mother with  her child born with a cleft palateat ..
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  • Afghanistan, 24 July 2005.American soldiers patrolling the streets of Kabul.
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  • KABUL, an Afghan reading a book on Islam at a local bookshop in Jada.
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  • A dusty afternoon. In the backgrong a five-floor building under construction
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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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  • KABUL 04 August 2005..KHAIR-KHANA PRIVATE CLINIC....Janat Gul - Shabana's father - craddles her daughter on his harms while meeting Dr Ahnadi's assistant...Dr. Waheed Ahmadi, who works at Jamhoriat Hospital and also run is private studio, will refers Shabana to a Dermatologist...
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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 16 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery....Doctors during a short break.....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 17 August 2005..Maiwand Hospital....Shabana in the recovery room with her mother...The previous day she underwent a four-hour plastic surgery operation. ..She will be dismissed in two days, Friday the 19th.....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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  • Surket, 01 March 2005... Policemen paying tribute to their colleague killed by Maoists the previous day. "Our King Gyanendra is not the Rome's Emperor Nerone. He can't just sit in Kathmandu and watch Nepal burning... The Maoist principles are good, but the ways they threat people are wrong. They should act legally as a political party. We want peace, not war.." a police officer says
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  • Kathmandu Valley, 12 February, 2005. Military check point on the outskirt of Kathmandu.  All the men get off the bus and walk through the checkpoint, women and foreigners are allowed to stay in the bus. A soldier checks the luggages on board.
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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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  • Dailekh, 02 March 2005... Soldiers of the Royal Nepal Army are marching towards Dailekh.
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  • Kalikot, 07 March 2005.  A Nepali family in the remote area of Kalikot. "Most of the money provided to invest into remote areas ends up in the pockets of our politicians" an editor from Kathmandu says
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