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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: A nurse hugs one child at  Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy)  for mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned March 5, 2003 in n Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find protection and care. Outside there is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy that none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women sit by their children Tofan, 1, left, and Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffer from severe malnutrition in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned, find protection and receive compassionate treatment March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find care. Outside there is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy that none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffers from severe malnutrition cries in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Amir Rahman, 2, and Farshad, 6 months, sleep in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women sit by their children Tofan, 1, left, and Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffer from severe malnutrition in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Dr. Abdul Qader Ghafari stitches the hand of  Rashid, 6, in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Nurses sing and dance to mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find protection and care. Outside their is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy where none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned, find protection and receive compassionate treatment March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find care. Outside there is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy that none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned, find protection and receive compassionate treatment March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find care. Outside their is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy where none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned hug eachother and find protection March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find care. Outside there is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy that none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.
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  • Afghan women and their children wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • An Afghan woman and her child wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children practice in their costumes and masks for a Japanese sponsored cultural event August 29, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children scream as a boy in their school dressed up in a mask tries to scare them at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The children were there for a Japanese music and dance program which concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan child attends a Japanese music and dance performance  at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Afghan girls wait to be visited by a doctor  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Afghanistan has a shortage of female doctors whihc makes women and children even more vulnerable. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Traditional doctor heats a gold needle to treat joint pains or headaches to a patient at the Trashi Yengtse hospital in Eastern  Bhutan October 15, 2005. (ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, right, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, left, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • I nurse checks the IV drugs being administered to Afghan patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • A survivor of the tsunamis that ravaged the coast of India and Asia sits where her house once stood with all that she could salvage from the wreckage January 5, 2005 in Nagapattinum in the state of Tamil Nadu. The official death toll in India  has reached about 15,000 people and the total dead is over 150,000 in the 11 nations that were hit. (Ami Vitale)
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  • I nurse checks the IV drugs being administered to Afghan patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Praviti cries outside the remains of her home after she lost 2 relatives in the deadly tsunamis that ravaged the coast of India and Asia January 5, 2005 in Cuddalore in the state of Tamil Nadu. 15,000 people died in India alone and hundreds of thousand were made homeless. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Dr. Bhaskar Choudhury and his collegues work with elephants who have been abandoned during drives to get herds from rampaging through villages at a rescue center near the Kazaringa National Park in Assam, India January 5, 2003.(Ami Vitale)
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  • Aichetou Mint Dahi helped Mariem Mint Cheikh and her son, Vadal Ould Talebned, whom she holds,  walk 18 km to Gaat Teidouma in the Affole region of Mauritania to get to a health post. The baby was weak and emaciated and was eventually referred to the capital of Nouakchott which is several days journey through the unforgiving desert ..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1, 2002:   Afghan women and their children wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1, 2002:   Afghan women and their children wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Dairen Simpson is blessed by a local bush doctor as villagers look on in Simana, Tanzania. Ami Vitale
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1, 2002:   Afghan women and their children wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1, 2002:   Afghan women and their children wait to be seen by a doctor  from the non-governmental aid agency Medicine San Frontiers near the village of Anbar Somuch in the Bamiyan district of Afghanistan July 31, 2002.  USA. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania holds a lions claw and tree roots that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale).
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania holds a lions claw and tree roots that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale).
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania holds a gourd with lion's hair that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania prepares a mix using maize flour and tree roots next to a kibuyu vessel that holds lion's hair that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ahmad Msham, 39, a bush doctor from Chidodo settlement in Lindi, Tanzania holds a lions claw and tree roots that he uses for "white magic" when spirit lions are thought to be eating villagers. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans wait to see a doctor at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans wait to see a doctor at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans  have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk..(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Angolans wait to see a doctor at the International Red Cross hospital in Huambo, Angola. Hundreds of thousands of Angolans have lost limbs after stepping on a mine and in some towns one-in-four people have lost a limb or have been killed by mines. Despite a huge campaign to educate Angolans of the danger, most are forced to search the countryside for food despite the risk. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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