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His friends called him "Rapidtaxi" because he came quickly when needed. He made an average of 30 calls a day - as many as 80 during flu epidemics - and travelled about 60 miles daily on his rounds. He treated all sorts of diseases and minor ailments, but in this mining district, his patients most frequently suffered from silicosis (generally followed by tuberculosis) due to coal dust in the mines and stomach ulcers caused by poor food. Dr R. spent his spare time playing cards between calls and fishing on Sunday afternoons in season. He loved his profession and the people he was in contact with and, in his own words, "wouldn't change for an empire". Twice a week on duty at the well-baby clinic. He only gives indications concerning diets and general hygiene. If something is wrong with one of the babies, he refers the mother to her usual physician." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="477" height="300" style="margin-left:-88.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Dr Armand R., physician, friend and counsellor to his patients (he saw about 6000 of them a year) had his practice in Damprémy near Charleroi in Belgium. His friends called him "Rapidtaxi" because he came quickly when needed. He made an average of 30 calls a day - as many as 80 during flu epidemics - and travelled about 60 miles daily on his rounds. He treated all sorts of diseases and minor ailments, but in this mining district, his patients most frequently suffered from silicosis (generally followed by tuberculosis) due to coal dust in the mines and stomach ulcers caused by poor food. Dr R. spent his spare time playing cards between calls and fishing on Sunday afternoons in season. He loved his profession and the people he was in contact with and, in his own words, "wouldn't change for an empire". Twice a week on duty at the well-baby clinic. He only gives indications concerning diets and general hygiene. If something is wrong with one of the babies, he refers the mother to her usual physician." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="477" height="300" style="margin-left:-88.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Dr Armand R., physician, friend and counsellor to his patients (he saw about 6000 of them a year) had his practice in Damprémy near Charleroi in Belgium. His friends called him "Rapidtaxi" because he came quickly when needed. He made an average of 30 calls a day - as many as 80 during flu epidemics - and travelled about 60 miles daily on his rounds. He treated all sorts of diseases and minor ailments, but in this mining district, his patients most frequently suffered from silicosis (generally followed by tuberculosis) due to coal dust in the mines and stomach ulcers caused by poor food. Dr R. spent his spare time playing cards between calls and fishing on Sunday afternoons in season. He loved his profession and the people he was in contact with and, in his own words, "wouldn't change for an empire". Twice a week on duty at the well-baby clinic. He only gives indications concerning diets and general hygiene. If something is wrong with one of the babies, he refers the mother to her usual physician." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="477" height="300" style="margin-left:-88.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1300"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1300/philippines-quotmagic-to-modern-methodsquot-by-dal">PHILIPPINES: "Magic to modern methods" by Dale Whitney - 1965 <span>(20)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1300/philippines-quotmagic-to-modern-methodsquot-by-dal" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/41730_307.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=4da6217b567bdad0b2363b7546bc88759abd57327bf248b343b11d2be84c4f83" alt="Magic to modern methods - Education of untrained midwives in modern methods of delivery, sanitation and hygiene were the object of a programme in the Philippines. Aided by WHO and UNICEF, the Philippine government launched the programme in July 1954. In ten years, some 6000 woman, about one-third of the country's hilots as the local midwives are called in Tagalog, attended 12-week courses in delivery, prenatal and postnatal care. New they were used to sending for medical assistance in the event of abnormal deliveries. They continued to work closely with local health clinics and greatly helped in the house-to-house improvement of hygiene and sanitation.Our photos show the conversion of a hilot, 58-year-old Escolastica Paeste from the village of Tamag, near Vigan on the northeast coast of Luzon. The hilot catches smoke from burning vinegar-soaked straw in a basket and gives it to the mother to breath. While smoke is inhaled by the mother, the hilot utters words against evil spirits." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="307" style="margin-top:-3.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Magic to modern methods - Education of untrained midwives in modern methods of delivery, sanitation and hygiene were the object of a programme in the Philippines. Aided by WHO and UNICEF, the Philippine government launched the programme in July 1954. In ten years, some 6000 woman, about one-third of the country's hilots as the local midwives are called in Tagalog, attended 12-week courses in delivery, prenatal and postnatal care. New they were used to sending for medical assistance in the event of abnormal deliveries. They continued to work closely with local health clinics and greatly helped in the house-to-house improvement of hygiene and sanitation.Our photos show the conversion of a hilot, 58-year-old Escolastica Paeste from the village of Tamag, near Vigan on the northeast coast of Luzon. The hilot catches smoke from burning vinegar-soaked straw in a basket and gives it to the mother to breath. While smoke is inhaled by the mother, the hilot utters words against evil spirits." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="307" style="margin-top:-3.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Magic to modern methods - Education of untrained midwives in modern methods of delivery, sanitation and hygiene were the object of a programme in the Philippines. Aided by WHO and UNICEF, the Philippine government launched the programme in July 1954. In ten years, some 6000 woman, about one-third of the country's hilots as the local midwives are called in Tagalog, attended 12-week courses in delivery, prenatal and postnatal care. New they were used to sending for medical assistance in the event of abnormal deliveries. They continued to work closely with local health clinics and greatly helped in the house-to-house improvement of hygiene and sanitation.Our photos show the conversion of a hilot, 58-year-old Escolastica Paeste from the village of Tamag, near Vigan on the northeast coast of Luzon. The hilot catches smoke from burning vinegar-soaked straw in a basket and gives it to the mother to breath. While smoke is inhaled by the mother, the hilot utters words against evil spirits." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="307" style="margin-top:-3.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1562"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1562/jordan-quot57-camps-in-4-countriesquot-by-paul-alm">JORDAN: "57 camps in 4 countries" by Paul Almasy - 1965 <span>(86)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1562/jordan-quot57-camps-in-4-countriesquot-by-paul-alm" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/24673_305.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=0d313d9facc8fd3f1e6c6e8d0efa5c9573289ad514d5e0952bce73989e615143" alt="The 1,200,000 refugees of Palestine are scattered over some 250,000 square kilomètres, an area larger than that of Great Britain. In December 1949, the General Assembly of the United Nations, in order to help them, set up UNRWA, which stands for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near-East. The General Assembly also requested the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture organization, UNICEF and other agencies to provide supplies, staff and urgently needed services without delay. The refugees make their own bread in a camp in Syria." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The 1,200,000 refugees of Palestine are scattered over some 250,000 square kilomètres, an area larger than that of Great Britain. In December 1949, the General Assembly of the United Nations, in order to help them, set up UNRWA, which stands for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near-East. The General Assembly also requested the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture organization, UNICEF and other agencies to provide supplies, staff and urgently needed services without delay. The refugees make their own bread in a camp in Syria." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The 1,200,000 refugees of Palestine are scattered over some 250,000 square kilomètres, an area larger than that of Great Britain. In December 1949, the General Assembly of the United Nations, in order to help them, set up UNRWA, which stands for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near-East. The General Assembly also requested the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture organization, UNICEF and other agencies to provide supplies, staff and urgently needed services without delay. The refugees make their own bread in a camp in Syria." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1340"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1340/quotmigration-and-healthquot-by-paul-almasy-1965">"Migration and health" by Paul Almasy - 1965 <span>(28)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1340/quotmigration-and-healthquot-by-paul-almasy-1965" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/49595_302.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=6e2f928f575ec96d8369336dea22125b7329ba89c8f8172b2db6259a0663ef12" alt="World Health Magazine, in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM), told the story of a family that left their native Spain for South America to bring their skills to a new country and fashion a future for their children. The family's departure was organized by ICEM which handled all problems connected with European emigration to countries overseas and in particular to countries where immigration can contribute to economic and social progress. In Buenos Aires, they are met by an official from the Spanish embassy. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/367810" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="World Health Magazine, in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM), told the story of a family that left their native Spain for South America to bring their skills to a new country and fashion a future for their children. The family's departure was organized by ICEM which handled all problems connected with European emigration to countries overseas and in particular to countries where immigration can contribute to economic and social progress. In Buenos Aires, they are met by an official from the Spanish embassy. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/367810" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="World Health Magazine, in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM), told the story of a family that left their native Spain for South America to bring their skills to a new country and fashion a future for their children. The family's departure was organized by ICEM which handled all problems connected with European emigration to countries overseas and in particular to countries where immigration can contribute to economic and social progress. In Buenos Aires, they are met by an official from the Spanish embassy. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/367810" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1360"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1360/republic-of-korea-quotwon-jung-ja-a-followup-worke">REPUBLIC OF KOREA: "Won Jung Ja, a follow-up worker" by Philip Boucas - 1964 <span>(59)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1360/republic-of-korea-quotwon-jung-ja-a-followup-worke" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/42217_448.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=32a76b1337df70a1054531d5ed10b90a6492f7d2c66659da14a8eefa761cb4a2" alt="Tuberculosis was a big problem in Korea. It was estimated that 70% of the population of 27 million were infected with tubercle bacilli though they did not necessarily have the disease. Over 10,000 died from the disease every year. "Paibyungs", the Korean word for people with the "bad cough", were treated as social outcasts. In 1951, the Korean authorities mobilised to fight "paibyung". Nation-wide BCG vaccination was carried out in schools and four years later, mass X-ray and free home treatment were started with the help of the UN Operations Mission. In 1962, the World Health Organization came into the picture to help the government in its determined bid to fight TB. WHO's aim was to help the Government to reduce and finally to eliminate the infection as a public health problem. UNICEF also helped by providing drugs and equipment . The Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA) cooperated closely with the Government. With funds raised from contributions by private citizens KNTA paid, among other things, for the salaries of 207 follow-up workers and 160 TB nurses all over the country. Won Jung Ja is a "follow-up worker". Commenting this photo, she tells, in her own words, of her work: "I have been working at the Yong Dong Po Health Centre in Seoul since September 1963. I am a graduate nurse from the Red Cross School for Nursing. I earn some 6,000 Won (50$) per month. We are 7 "follow-up workers" at the centre. The centre serves the TB control pilot project area of 206 sq. kms. with about half a million people. We have more than 3,000 TB patients receiving home treatment in Yong Dong Po. 421 of them are in my charge. A good part of my day is spent in walking. Here, I am visiting patients in the rural district of Kae Bong Dong. I have 16 patients in this area."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="448" height="300" style="margin-left:-74px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Tuberculosis was a big problem in Korea. It was estimated that 70% of the population of 27 million were infected with tubercle bacilli though they did not necessarily have the disease. Over 10,000 died from the disease every year. "Paibyungs", the Korean word for people with the "bad cough", were treated as social outcasts. In 1951, the Korean authorities mobilised to fight "paibyung". Nation-wide BCG vaccination was carried out in schools and four years later, mass X-ray and free home treatment were started with the help of the UN Operations Mission. In 1962, the World Health Organization came into the picture to help the government in its determined bid to fight TB. WHO's aim was to help the Government to reduce and finally to eliminate the infection as a public health problem. UNICEF also helped by providing drugs and equipment . The Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA) cooperated closely with the Government. With funds raised from contributions by private citizens KNTA paid, among other things, for the salaries of 207 follow-up workers and 160 TB nurses all over the country. Won Jung Ja is a "follow-up worker". Commenting this photo, she tells, in her own words, of her work: "I have been working at the Yong Dong Po Health Centre in Seoul since September 1963. I am a graduate nurse from the Red Cross School for Nursing. I earn some 6,000 Won (50$) per month. We are 7 "follow-up workers" at the centre. The centre serves the TB control pilot project area of 206 sq. kms. with about half a million people. We have more than 3,000 TB patients receiving home treatment in Yong Dong Po. 421 of them are in my charge. A good part of my day is spent in walking. Here, I am visiting patients in the rural district of Kae Bong Dong. I have 16 patients in this area."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="448" height="300" style="margin-left:-74px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Tuberculosis was a big problem in Korea. It was estimated that 70% of the population of 27 million were infected with tubercle bacilli though they did not necessarily have the disease. Over 10,000 died from the disease every year. "Paibyungs", the Korean word for people with the "bad cough", were treated as social outcasts. In 1951, the Korean authorities mobilised to fight "paibyung". Nation-wide BCG vaccination was carried out in schools and four years later, mass X-ray and free home treatment were started with the help of the UN Operations Mission. In 1962, the World Health Organization came into the picture to help the government in its determined bid to fight TB. WHO's aim was to help the Government to reduce and finally to eliminate the infection as a public health problem. UNICEF also helped by providing drugs and equipment . The Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA) cooperated closely with the Government. With funds raised from contributions by private citizens KNTA paid, among other things, for the salaries of 207 follow-up workers and 160 TB nurses all over the country. Won Jung Ja is a "follow-up worker". Commenting this photo, she tells, in her own words, of her work: "I have been working at the Yong Dong Po Health Centre in Seoul since September 1963. I am a graduate nurse from the Red Cross School for Nursing. I earn some 6,000 Won (50$) per month. We are 7 "follow-up workers" at the centre. The centre serves the TB control pilot project area of 206 sq. kms. with about half a million people. We have more than 3,000 TB patients receiving home treatment in Yong Dong Po. 421 of them are in my charge. A good part of my day is spent in walking. Here, I am visiting patients in the rural district of Kae Bong Dong. I have 16 patients in this area."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="448" height="300" style="margin-left:-74px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1292"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1292/morocco-quotmoroccos-infantry-of-healthquot-by-jea">MOROCCO: "Morocco's infantry of health" by Jean Mohr - 1964 <span>(63)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1292/morocco-quotmoroccos-infantry-of-healthquot-by-jea" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/25411_460.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=74f1fe2b136e251d5eed8c0abb0d745b91e1fb8f38f6ef805a8dc892a63fb656" alt="While modern treatment was available in the 3 or 4 major hospital centres of Morocco in 1957 there was almost no national staff to run the general health service. Contact between WHO and the health problems of Morocco started some four years before independence when it was realized that independence in the medical field meant a greatly intensified training programme. Also, it was not sufficient to calculate the output of trainees needed to run the medical services of the day; output had to be geared to new targets set by the Government’s five-year plan for social and economic development (one health centre for every 45,000 inhabitants and one dispensary for every 15,000 inhabitants). To provide the personnel necessary for this service not only was a 100$ increase in output of higher trained staff necessary it also became essential to create a new grade of trained basic personnel. Thus the “aides sanitaires” came into being. With WHO and UNICEF help, under the prosaic symbol “Morocco” twenty-six schools for “aides sanitaires” were created.1964 will see 1,000 of these aides qualify, bringing to 4335 the cumulative number of these key workers who have been trained since 1957. On qualification “aides sanitaires” are assigned to rural health centres. Each rural health centre had a full-time doctor helped by two nurses and five aides sanitaires, of whom three are itinerant, doing nothing but home visiting. In these photos WHO photographer, Jean Mohr, shows something of the 2-year training given to aides sanitaires through 5 trainees between the ages of 24 and 29, 2 of them being young women. Yahia Hilal BOUZIANI, 24, is the second of five children of a poor farmer. He, however, prefers to work in town rather than in the country. He is unmarried and lives in a dormitory at the hospital. He is a second-year student but thinks that the studies are very difficult and tiring. He would like to specialize in anesthesiology after the two-year course. Bouziani is doing part of his training in the surgical section of Hospital Avissen. His main job is to change bandages." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="460" height="300" style="margin-left:-80px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="While modern treatment was available in the 3 or 4 major hospital centres of Morocco in 1957 there was almost no national staff to run the general health service. Contact between WHO and the health problems of Morocco started some four years before independence when it was realized that independence in the medical field meant a greatly intensified training programme. Also, it was not sufficient to calculate the output of trainees needed to run the medical services of the day; output had to be geared to new targets set by the Government’s five-year plan for social and economic development (one health centre for every 45,000 inhabitants and one dispensary for every 15,000 inhabitants). To provide the personnel necessary for this service not only was a 100$ increase in output of higher trained staff necessary it also became essential to create a new grade of trained basic personnel. Thus the “aides sanitaires” came into being. With WHO and UNICEF help, under the prosaic symbol “Morocco” twenty-six schools for “aides sanitaires” were created.1964 will see 1,000 of these aides qualify, bringing to 4335 the cumulative number of these key workers who have been trained since 1957. On qualification “aides sanitaires” are assigned to rural health centres. Each rural health centre had a full-time doctor helped by two nurses and five aides sanitaires, of whom three are itinerant, doing nothing but home visiting. In these photos WHO photographer, Jean Mohr, shows something of the 2-year training given to aides sanitaires through 5 trainees between the ages of 24 and 29, 2 of them being young women. Yahia Hilal BOUZIANI, 24, is the second of five children of a poor farmer. He, however, prefers to work in town rather than in the country. He is unmarried and lives in a dormitory at the hospital. He is a second-year student but thinks that the studies are very difficult and tiring. He would like to specialize in anesthesiology after the two-year course. Bouziani is doing part of his training in the surgical section of Hospital Avissen. His main job is to change bandages." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="460" height="300" style="margin-left:-80px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="While modern treatment was available in the 3 or 4 major hospital centres of Morocco in 1957 there was almost no national staff to run the general health service. Contact between WHO and the health problems of Morocco started some four years before independence when it was realized that independence in the medical field meant a greatly intensified training programme. Also, it was not sufficient to calculate the output of trainees needed to run the medical services of the day; output had to be geared to new targets set by the Government’s five-year plan for social and economic development (one health centre for every 45,000 inhabitants and one dispensary for every 15,000 inhabitants). To provide the personnel necessary for this service not only was a 100$ increase in output of higher trained staff necessary it also became essential to create a new grade of trained basic personnel. Thus the “aides sanitaires” came into being. With WHO and UNICEF help, under the prosaic symbol “Morocco” twenty-six schools for “aides sanitaires” were created.1964 will see 1,000 of these aides qualify, bringing to 4335 the cumulative number of these key workers who have been trained since 1957. On qualification “aides sanitaires” are assigned to rural health centres. Each rural health centre had a full-time doctor helped by two nurses and five aides sanitaires, of whom three are itinerant, doing nothing but home visiting. In these photos WHO photographer, Jean Mohr, shows something of the 2-year training given to aides sanitaires through 5 trainees between the ages of 24 and 29, 2 of them being young women. Yahia Hilal BOUZIANI, 24, is the second of five children of a poor farmer. He, however, prefers to work in town rather than in the country. He is unmarried and lives in a dormitory at the hospital. He is a second-year student but thinks that the studies are very difficult and tiring. He would like to specialize in anesthesiology after the two-year course. Bouziani is doing part of his training in the surgical section of Hospital Avissen. His main job is to change bandages." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="460" height="300" style="margin-left:-80px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_432"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div>  <span class="info_desc"><div class="teaserText hoverFileInfo"><p>Kim In Soon, a six-year-old from the village of Wedong Nyun, in Southern Korea, was doing her first year in school; when a WHO assisted mobile leprosy team found her symptoms of leprosy.</p></div></span> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/432/republic-of-korea-quotthe-story-of-kim-in-soonquot">REPUBLIC OF KOREA: "The story of Kim In Soon" by Dale Whitney - 1963 <span>(14)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/432/republic-of-korea-quotthe-story-of-kim-in-soonquot" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/47894_455.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=663653aee153f9442588dccec941a32190dc64a9941ddf77d7c1824182d77398" alt="The story of Kim In Soon - Perhaps 100,000 people suffer from leprosy in Korea - most of them are undiscovered and untreated. To find out the real extent of this disease and to prepare for a nation-wide public-health approach to leprosy control, the Korean Government in 1961 with the help of WHO established a leprosy control project in the province of Kyungaan Pukdo. This project covers many phases, from case-finding to health education. Kim In Soon, a six-year old from the village of Wedong Nyun, in Southern Korea, was doing her first year in school; when a WHO assisted mobile leprosy team found her symptoms of leprosy. Thanks to early diagnosis and modern drugs, Kim In Soon was able to continue leading her normal life. All she had to do was to take her sulfone tablets regularly. The doctor who examined Kim In Soon in school came to see her parents. Her father and mother did not look happy to see him so she stopped playing in the yard to join her parents who were listening to what he had to say. Dr Youn Keun Cha was telling them that In Soon had early symptoms of leprosy. He explained that the disease is just an infectious disease and, if found early enough, it can be cured completely. But the doctor was interested in knowing something else "Do you have someone in the family afflicted with leprosy?" he asked them. The father was quick to reply : "No one"! The doctor did not want to press the matter but told In Soon's parents that she will have to take regular treatment with sulfone tablets." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="455" height="300" style="margin-left:-77.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The story of Kim In Soon - Perhaps 100,000 people suffer from leprosy in Korea - most of them are undiscovered and untreated. To find out the real extent of this disease and to prepare for a nation-wide public-health approach to leprosy control, the Korean Government in 1961 with the help of WHO established a leprosy control project in the province of Kyungaan Pukdo. This project covers many phases, from case-finding to health education. Kim In Soon, a six-year old from the village of Wedong Nyun, in Southern Korea, was doing her first year in school; when a WHO assisted mobile leprosy team found her symptoms of leprosy. Thanks to early diagnosis and modern drugs, Kim In Soon was able to continue leading her normal life. All she had to do was to take her sulfone tablets regularly. The doctor who examined Kim In Soon in school came to see her parents. Her father and mother did not look happy to see him so she stopped playing in the yard to join her parents who were listening to what he had to say. Dr Youn Keun Cha was telling them that In Soon had early symptoms of leprosy. He explained that the disease is just an infectious disease and, if found early enough, it can be cured completely. But the doctor was interested in knowing something else "Do you have someone in the family afflicted with leprosy?" he asked them. The father was quick to reply : "No one"! The doctor did not want to press the matter but told In Soon's parents that she will have to take regular treatment with sulfone tablets." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="455" height="300" style="margin-left:-77.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The story of Kim In Soon - Perhaps 100,000 people suffer from leprosy in Korea - most of them are undiscovered and untreated. To find out the real extent of this disease and to prepare for a nation-wide public-health approach to leprosy control, the Korean Government in 1961 with the help of WHO established a leprosy control project in the province of Kyungaan Pukdo. This project covers many phases, from case-finding to health education. Kim In Soon, a six-year old from the village of Wedong Nyun, in Southern Korea, was doing her first year in school; when a WHO assisted mobile leprosy team found her symptoms of leprosy. Thanks to early diagnosis and modern drugs, Kim In Soon was able to continue leading her normal life. All she had to do was to take her sulfone tablets regularly. The doctor who examined Kim In Soon in school came to see her parents. Her father and mother did not look happy to see him so she stopped playing in the yard to join her parents who were listening to what he had to say. Dr Youn Keun Cha was telling them that In Soon had early symptoms of leprosy. He explained that the disease is just an infectious disease and, if found early enough, it can be cured completely. But the doctor was interested in knowing something else "Do you have someone in the family afflicted with leprosy?" he asked them. The father was quick to reply : "No one"! The doctor did not want to press the matter but told In Soon's parents that she will have to take regular treatment with sulfone tablets." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="455" height="300" style="margin-left:-77.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1289"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1289/niger-quotthe-mask-of-meningitisquot-by-didier-hen">NIGER: "The mask of meningitis" by Didier Henrioud - 1963 <span>(31)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1289/niger-quotthe-mask-of-meningitisquot-by-didier-hen" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/30198_303.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=96e70b3ab77006c23a524293e385154ac962fe5099dfd1729492f8733a07fd8a" alt="The mask of meningitis - Niger is one of five countries which form the "African Meningitis Belt" extending in Africa between the 8th and the 16th parallels north. A patient treated with one injection of long-acting sulfonamides within 48 hours of the onset of the disease has a better than 90% chance of complete recovery. To help study the problem of cerebrospinal meningitis in West Africa a WHO consultant visited the area advising the government on control measures. Our photo shows labial herpes, a typical indication of cerebrospinal meningitis. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/367792" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The mask of meningitis - Niger is one of five countries which form the "African Meningitis Belt" extending in Africa between the 8th and the 16th parallels north. A patient treated with one injection of long-acting sulfonamides within 48 hours of the onset of the disease has a better than 90% chance of complete recovery. To help study the problem of cerebrospinal meningitis in West Africa a WHO consultant visited the area advising the government on control measures. Our photo shows labial herpes, a typical indication of cerebrospinal meningitis. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/367792" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The mask of meningitis - Niger is one of five countries which form the "African Meningitis Belt" extending in Africa between the 8th and the 16th parallels north. A patient treated with one injection of long-acting sulfonamides within 48 hours of the onset of the disease has a better than 90% chance of complete recovery. To help study the problem of cerebrospinal meningitis in West Africa a WHO consultant visited the area advising the government on control measures. Our photo shows labial herpes, a typical indication of cerebrospinal meningitis. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/367792" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1332"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1332/canada-quotlife-in-the-cold-climatesquot-by-paul-a">CANADA : "Life in the cold climates" by Paul Almasy - 1962 <span>(14)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1332/canada-quotlife-in-the-cold-climatesquot-by-paul-a" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/21314_428.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=71b5ba1bba71c14d9f359b88b1ee6bb2212c2d7218b55f90c172af756342aa1c" alt="Health services include all services dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease, or the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health. They include personal and non-personal health services. Health services are the most visible functions of any health system, both to users and the general public. Service provision refers to the way inputs such as money, staff, equipment and drugs are combined to allow the delivery of health interventions. Improving access, coverage and quality of services depends on these key resources being available; on the ways services are organized and managed, and on incentives influencing providers and users. Drying skins in northern Canada." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="428" style="margin-top:-64px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Health services include all services dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease, or the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health. They include personal and non-personal health services. Health services are the most visible functions of any health system, both to users and the general public. Service provision refers to the way inputs such as money, staff, equipment and drugs are combined to allow the delivery of health interventions. Improving access, coverage and quality of services depends on these key resources being available; on the ways services are organized and managed, and on incentives influencing providers and users. Drying skins in northern Canada." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="428" style="margin-top:-64px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Health services include all services dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease, or the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health. They include personal and non-personal health services. Health services are the most visible functions of any health system, both to users and the general public. Service provision refers to the way inputs such as money, staff, equipment and drugs are combined to allow the delivery of health interventions. Improving access, coverage and quality of services depends on these key resources being available; on the ways services are organized and managed, and on incentives influencing providers and users. Drying skins in northern Canada." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="428" style="margin-top:-64px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1290"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1290/mexico-quothealth-ridersquot-by-paul-almasy-1962">MEXICO: "Health riders" by Paul Almasy - 1962 <span>(15)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1290/mexico-quothealth-ridersquot-by-paul-almasy-1962" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/44767_305.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=2efebe56e18fbe25f4e40cde9c6313b48ed6006b5efbb0f97c5810359123c8f9" alt="In Mexico, malaria eradication reached an advanced stage in the early sixties. One of the areas where regular insecticide spraying went on was the State of Yucatan famous for its well preserved Maya monuments. The health teams covered the region on horseback. A little Mexican girl giving sample of her blood for a test." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="In Mexico, malaria eradication reached an advanced stage in the early sixties. One of the areas where regular insecticide spraying went on was the State of Yucatan famous for its well preserved Maya monuments. The health teams covered the region on horseback. A little Mexican girl giving sample of her blood for a test." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="In Mexico, malaria eradication reached an advanced stage in the early sixties. One of the areas where regular insecticide spraying went on was the State of Yucatan famous for its well preserved Maya monuments. The health teams covered the region on horseback. A little Mexican girl giving sample of her blood for a test." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1342"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1342/indonesia-quotby-the-sweat-of-my-browquot-by-paul-">INDONESIA : "By the sweat of my brow" by Paul Almasy - 1962 <span>(14)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1342/indonesia-quotby-the-sweat-of-my-browquot-by-paul-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/32175_305.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=8cf953358b60d4fc48a8148fef56b4b6053fb17f5ec59c3262815541d15699f7" alt="For thousands of years people such as Hadji Mansur, an Indonesian farmer, have been pursuing their task of wresting more food from land and sea to still the hunger of their families and the growing hunger of the world. Photographed and interviewed by World Health he tells in his own simple language of his work and of his hope."I am 50 and I live on the island of Java, I cultivate 2 hectares of rice and my yearly crop is about 4 tons. One hectare belongs to me. The other I rent from a rich land-owner: the price is 1 ton of rice a year. My wife is 40. Her name is Djamilah. She plants the rice in January and reaps it in May. My son, Aos, is 20. He is road-builder but gives us a hand at harvest-time. My daughter Mulianah is only three." "I may be fifty but I still like to climb the trees to pick up "kluwih", a delicious fruit."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="For thousands of years people such as Hadji Mansur, an Indonesian farmer, have been pursuing their task of wresting more food from land and sea to still the hunger of their families and the growing hunger of the world. Photographed and interviewed by World Health he tells in his own simple language of his work and of his hope."I am 50 and I live on the island of Java, I cultivate 2 hectares of rice and my yearly crop is about 4 tons. One hectare belongs to me. The other I rent from a rich land-owner: the price is 1 ton of rice a year. My wife is 40. Her name is Djamilah. She plants the rice in January and reaps it in May. My son, Aos, is 20. He is road-builder but gives us a hand at harvest-time. My daughter Mulianah is only three." "I may be fifty but I still like to climb the trees to pick up "kluwih", a delicious fruit."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="For thousands of years people such as Hadji Mansur, an Indonesian farmer, have been pursuing their task of wresting more food from land and sea to still the hunger of their families and the growing hunger of the world. Photographed and interviewed by World Health he tells in his own simple language of his work and of his hope."I am 50 and I live on the island of Java, I cultivate 2 hectares of rice and my yearly crop is about 4 tons. One hectare belongs to me. The other I rent from a rich land-owner: the price is 1 ton of rice a year. My wife is 40. Her name is Djamilah. She plants the rice in January and reaps it in May. My son, Aos, is 20. He is road-builder but gives us a hand at harvest-time. My daughter Mulianah is only three." "I may be fifty but I still like to climb the trees to pick up "kluwih", a delicious fruit."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305" style="margin-top:-2.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1304"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1304/iran-quotthe-last-hideouts-of-plaguequot-by-paul-a">IRAN: "The last hideouts of plague" by Paul Almasy - 1962 <span>(26)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1304/iran-quotthe-last-hideouts-of-plaguequot-by-paul-a" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/24825_304.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=d3d17b6457340a86de7fb00c3fe9005218d7e162f02a5c37ac11316e3283e0cc" alt="The last hideouts of plague - It was perhaps from the highlands of Kurdistan that plague, the Black Death of the Middle Ages, first set out on its world career. The wild landscape, which is also the original home of the tulip, is today one of the remaining natural hideouts of the dread disease. Bubonic plague is transmitted to men by the bite of rat fleas or fleas from other rodents. When in Aghbolaf Morsehd, "plague village", an epidemic killed 42 people, the Pasteur Institute of Teheran established a laboratory in the district. Here plague is harboured by meriones rodents. To investigate the upsurges of infection the rodents are trapped and their parasites examined for plague bacilli. Traps are placed outside the rodents holes. Traps are placed outside the rodents' holes." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305.01672240803" style="margin-top:-2.5083612040134px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The last hideouts of plague - It was perhaps from the highlands of Kurdistan that plague, the Black Death of the Middle Ages, first set out on its world career. The wild landscape, which is also the original home of the tulip, is today one of the remaining natural hideouts of the dread disease. Bubonic plague is transmitted to men by the bite of rat fleas or fleas from other rodents. When in Aghbolaf Morsehd, "plague village", an epidemic killed 42 people, the Pasteur Institute of Teheran established a laboratory in the district. Here plague is harboured by meriones rodents. To investigate the upsurges of infection the rodents are trapped and their parasites examined for plague bacilli. Traps are placed outside the rodents holes. Traps are placed outside the rodents' holes." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305.01672240803" style="margin-top:-2.5083612040134px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The last hideouts of plague - It was perhaps from the highlands of Kurdistan that plague, the Black Death of the Middle Ages, first set out on its world career. The wild landscape, which is also the original home of the tulip, is today one of the remaining natural hideouts of the dread disease. Bubonic plague is transmitted to men by the bite of rat fleas or fleas from other rodents. When in Aghbolaf Morsehd, "plague village", an epidemic killed 42 people, the Pasteur Institute of Teheran established a laboratory in the district. Here plague is harboured by meriones rodents. To investigate the upsurges of infection the rodents are trapped and their parasites examined for plague bacilli. Traps are placed outside the rodents holes. Traps are placed outside the rodents' holes." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="305.01672240803" style="margin-top:-2.5083612040134px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1383"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1383/japan-quoti-listened-to-my-sons-new-ideasquot-by-t">JAPAN: "I listened to my son's new ideas" by Takeshi Takahara - 1962 <span>(22)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1383/japan-quoti-listened-to-my-sons-new-ideasquot-by-t" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/41268_459.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=3d974332a446627e62f31d2fe4f5378e5b0a271cff59d46ec60b900f6891f73f" alt="For thousands of years people such as Harukichi Saito, a Japanese farmer, have been pursuing their task of wresting more food from land and sea to still the hunger of their families and the growing hunger of the world. Photographed and interviewed by World Health he tells in his own language of his work and of his hopes. "My name is Harukichi Saito. I am 62, and a farmer. My son, Tatsuo, 27, is a farmer too, and with his help and the things he learned at agricultural college we've turned our farm into one of the most modern and most productive in our area. I have much to be thankful for." "Tatsuo regularly sprays and trims out pear orchard. Ten years ago, we were like most Japanese farmers, with rice as our main source of income. Then Tatsuo came back from agricultural school filled with ideas about multiple-crop farming and - luckily for me - I listened to him and decided he was right. Now rice as a crop is no more the determining factor in our lives. We market vegetables such as potatoes and tomatoes, wheat on a large scale, pigs and dairy products."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="459" height="300" style="margin-left:-79.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="For thousands of years people such as Harukichi Saito, a Japanese farmer, have been pursuing their task of wresting more food from land and sea to still the hunger of their families and the growing hunger of the world. Photographed and interviewed by World Health he tells in his own language of his work and of his hopes. "My name is Harukichi Saito. I am 62, and a farmer. My son, Tatsuo, 27, is a farmer too, and with his help and the things he learned at agricultural college we've turned our farm into one of the most modern and most productive in our area. I have much to be thankful for." "Tatsuo regularly sprays and trims out pear orchard. Ten years ago, we were like most Japanese farmers, with rice as our main source of income. Then Tatsuo came back from agricultural school filled with ideas about multiple-crop farming and - luckily for me - I listened to him and decided he was right. Now rice as a crop is no more the determining factor in our lives. We market vegetables such as potatoes and tomatoes, wheat on a large scale, pigs and dairy products."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="459" height="300" style="margin-left:-79.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="For thousands of years people such as Harukichi Saito, a Japanese farmer, have been pursuing their task of wresting more food from land and sea to still the hunger of their families and the growing hunger of the world. Photographed and interviewed by World Health he tells in his own language of his work and of his hopes. "My name is Harukichi Saito. I am 62, and a farmer. My son, Tatsuo, 27, is a farmer too, and with his help and the things he learned at agricultural college we've turned our farm into one of the most modern and most productive in our area. I have much to be thankful for." "Tatsuo regularly sprays and trims out pear orchard. Ten years ago, we were like most Japanese farmers, with rice as our main source of income. Then Tatsuo came back from agricultural school filled with ideas about multiple-crop farming and - luckily for me - I listened to him and decided he was right. Now rice as a crop is no more the determining factor in our lives. We market vegetables such as potatoes and tomatoes, wheat on a large scale, pigs and dairy products."" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="459" height="300" style="margin-left:-79.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1331"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1331/colombia-quotsmallpox-eradication-campaignquot-by-">COLOMBIA: "Smallpox eradication campaign" by Paul Almasy - 1962 <span>(17)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1331/colombia-quotsmallpox-eradication-campaignquot-by-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/22760_305.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=06f12efaf0c1d4322f8e134358575588e5035cd60ae8df7c98ef9a7f17e05e3c" alt="A campaign for the eradication of smallpox in Colombia. A WHO/assisted national team went from village to village and from house to house investigating the state of health of the people and vaccinating the whole population against smallpox. Our photos show the work of the team in the province of Atlantico, a mountainous and arid region near Barranquilla. Examination of a sick child." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306.02006688963" style="margin-top:-3.0100334448161px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="A campaign for the eradication of smallpox in Colombia. A WHO/assisted national team went from village to village and from house to house investigating the state of health of the people and vaccinating the whole population against smallpox. Our photos show the work of the team in the province of Atlantico, a mountainous and arid region near Barranquilla. Examination of a sick child." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306.02006688963" style="margin-top:-3.0100334448161px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="A campaign for the eradication of smallpox in Colombia. A WHO/assisted national team went from village to village and from house to house investigating the state of health of the people and vaccinating the whole population against smallpox. Our photos show the work of the team in the province of Atlantico, a mountainous and arid region near Barranquilla. Examination of a sick child." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306.02006688963" style="margin-top:-3.0100334448161px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1408"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1408/ethiopia-quotanatomy-of-a-projectquot-by-eric-schw">ETHIOPIA: "Anatomy of a project" by Eric Schwab - 1961 <span>(37)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1408/ethiopia-quotanatomy-of-a-projectquot-by-eric-schw" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/30810_301.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=2eda0a6fc538fe1f1b5a57d7293131223ffe93c78749fb813b84f80f1a9d6d9d" alt="Ethiopia 9 was the prosaic name of a scheme to overcome in Ethiopia what was no doubt the greatest obstacle to health progress in the world: the shortage of health workers. Ethiopia 9 was centred on Gondar, capital of Begemedir Province, near Lake Tana, in north west Ethiopia. Its aims were : a) to provide a centre for training auxiliary personnel ; b) to organize a model health service ; c) to investigate local health conditions ; d) to extend health services to the whole country. Ethiopia 9 came into being in 1952, a joint activity of the Ethiopian Government, UNICEF, WHO and the U.S. International Co-operation Administration. The Haile Selassi Public Health College and Training Centre graduated each year some 30 health assistants (3 year course), 30 public health nurses (2 year course) and 30 sanitarians (1 year course). The boy's eyes are badly swollen and his father has brought him for examination to the health centre. One of the earliest developments under Ethiopia 9 was to extend the out-patient activities of the hospital in Gondar." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302.00668896321" style="margin-top:-1.0033444816054px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Ethiopia 9 was the prosaic name of a scheme to overcome in Ethiopia what was no doubt the greatest obstacle to health progress in the world: the shortage of health workers. Ethiopia 9 was centred on Gondar, capital of Begemedir Province, near Lake Tana, in north west Ethiopia. Its aims were : a) to provide a centre for training auxiliary personnel ; b) to organize a model health service ; c) to investigate local health conditions ; d) to extend health services to the whole country. Ethiopia 9 came into being in 1952, a joint activity of the Ethiopian Government, UNICEF, WHO and the U.S. International Co-operation Administration. The Haile Selassi Public Health College and Training Centre graduated each year some 30 health assistants (3 year course), 30 public health nurses (2 year course) and 30 sanitarians (1 year course). The boy's eyes are badly swollen and his father has brought him for examination to the health centre. One of the earliest developments under Ethiopia 9 was to extend the out-patient activities of the hospital in Gondar." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302.00668896321" style="margin-top:-1.0033444816054px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Ethiopia 9 was the prosaic name of a scheme to overcome in Ethiopia what was no doubt the greatest obstacle to health progress in the world: the shortage of health workers. Ethiopia 9 was centred on Gondar, capital of Begemedir Province, near Lake Tana, in north west Ethiopia. Its aims were : a) to provide a centre for training auxiliary personnel ; b) to organize a model health service ; c) to investigate local health conditions ; d) to extend health services to the whole country. Ethiopia 9 came into being in 1952, a joint activity of the Ethiopian Government, UNICEF, WHO and the U.S. International Co-operation Administration. The Haile Selassi Public Health College and Training Centre graduated each year some 30 health assistants (3 year course), 30 public health nurses (2 year course) and 30 sanitarians (1 year course). The boy's eyes are badly swollen and his father has brought him for examination to the health centre. One of the earliest developments under Ethiopia 9 was to extend the out-patient activities of the hospital in Gondar." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302.00668896321" style="margin-top:-1.0033444816054px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1358"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1358/philippines-quotmalaria-eradication-among-the-head">PHILIPPINES: "Malaria eradication among the Head-hunters" by Paul Almasy - 1961 <span>(38)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1358/philippines-quotmalaria-eradication-among-the-head" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/41610_304.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=df5c732e287c52f0c09b1a7467a707fc20a56c27704420ae1b86330adc27bf6f" alt="Malaria eradication among the "Head-hunters"The valley of death was the popular name for the high plateau of Tabuk on the island of Luzon, Philippines. Although it was always extremely fertile, farmers deserted the area because malaria made it impossible for people to live there. As a result of systematic malaria control, the number of settlers increased every year regularly between 1961 and 1976 as the health situation improved - thanks to the effort of WHO/assisted national malaria team.The area covered by the malaria eradication unit included 23 villagers with a total population of 22,000 on the Tabuk plateau and remote villages in the mountains overlooking the plateau. The inhabitants of the mountain area belonged to the primitive Kainga tribe called "Head-Hunters" because in the tribal wars they used to cut off the heads of their enemies and hang them at the entrance of their houses. The man in this photo is tattooed in the traditional manner of the Kalingas, (tribe also called "head-hunter's"). See also WHO_A_014645, WHO_A_014644, WHO_A_014642, WHO_A_014641, WHO_A_014640." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Malaria eradication among the "Head-hunters"The valley of death was the popular name for the high plateau of Tabuk on the island of Luzon, Philippines. Although it was always extremely fertile, farmers deserted the area because malaria made it impossible for people to live there. As a result of systematic malaria control, the number of settlers increased every year regularly between 1961 and 1976 as the health situation improved - thanks to the effort of WHO/assisted national malaria team.The area covered by the malaria eradication unit included 23 villagers with a total population of 22,000 on the Tabuk plateau and remote villages in the mountains overlooking the plateau. The inhabitants of the mountain area belonged to the primitive Kainga tribe called "Head-Hunters" because in the tribal wars they used to cut off the heads of their enemies and hang them at the entrance of their houses. The man in this photo is tattooed in the traditional manner of the Kalingas, (tribe also called "head-hunter's"). See also WHO_A_014645, WHO_A_014644, WHO_A_014642, WHO_A_014641, WHO_A_014640." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Malaria eradication among the "Head-hunters"The valley of death was the popular name for the high plateau of Tabuk on the island of Luzon, Philippines. Although it was always extremely fertile, farmers deserted the area because malaria made it impossible for people to live there. As a result of systematic malaria control, the number of settlers increased every year regularly between 1961 and 1976 as the health situation improved - thanks to the effort of WHO/assisted national malaria team.The area covered by the malaria eradication unit included 23 villagers with a total population of 22,000 on the Tabuk plateau and remote villages in the mountains overlooking the plateau. The inhabitants of the mountain area belonged to the primitive Kainga tribe called "Head-Hunters" because in the tribal wars they used to cut off the heads of their enemies and hang them at the entrance of their houses. The man in this photo is tattooed in the traditional manner of the Kalingas, (tribe also called "head-hunter's"). See also WHO_A_014645, WHO_A_014644, WHO_A_014642, WHO_A_014641, WHO_A_014640." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1293"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1293/india-quotportrait-of-an-indian-villagequot-by-eri">INDIA: "Portrait of an Indian village" by Eric Schwab - 1960 <span>(67)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1293/india-quotportrait-of-an-indian-villagequot-by-eri" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/31714_302.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=57e6b9cb22189750c4298eca40baee0f112fccee46b7dd8f2ecd1dee32b66b7c" alt="Three quarters of India’s immense population (nearly 420 million) live on the land. Yet the output of the Indian cultivator is among the lowest in the world due to ill-health, antiquated methods and inadequate tools. In an effort to change the entire way of living and thinking of the Indian peasant, Village Community Schemes were started in 1955. The new approach was tried on 55 experimental “development blocks” each comprising roughly a hundred villages with about 55,000 people. An intensive effort was made in the field of education, in health improvement, agricultural modernization and in the organization of constructive group activities. Today, 400,000 of India’s 500,000 villages are covered by this scheme. India’s third Five Year Plan provides that, by 1963, community development work will extend over the entire country. Hangala Pura, 60 miles south of Mysore, in southern India, is typical of India’s 500,000 villages. Its inhabitants who are of the Lingayat casts, total 500. The village possesses 1,000 areas of good land for growing cereals and cotton and for raising cattle. It has 300 cows, 80 pairs of oxen, 120 sheep and 50 buffaloes. There are no pigs, no goats and no poultry. The Lingayats are vegetarian. People of Hangala Pura." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Three quarters of India’s immense population (nearly 420 million) live on the land. Yet the output of the Indian cultivator is among the lowest in the world due to ill-health, antiquated methods and inadequate tools. In an effort to change the entire way of living and thinking of the Indian peasant, Village Community Schemes were started in 1955. The new approach was tried on 55 experimental “development blocks” each comprising roughly a hundred villages with about 55,000 people. An intensive effort was made in the field of education, in health improvement, agricultural modernization and in the organization of constructive group activities. Today, 400,000 of India’s 500,000 villages are covered by this scheme. India’s third Five Year Plan provides that, by 1963, community development work will extend over the entire country. Hangala Pura, 60 miles south of Mysore, in southern India, is typical of India’s 500,000 villages. Its inhabitants who are of the Lingayat casts, total 500. The village possesses 1,000 areas of good land for growing cereals and cotton and for raising cattle. It has 300 cows, 80 pairs of oxen, 120 sheep and 50 buffaloes. There are no pigs, no goats and no poultry. The Lingayats are vegetarian. People of Hangala Pura." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Three quarters of India’s immense population (nearly 420 million) live on the land. Yet the output of the Indian cultivator is among the lowest in the world due to ill-health, antiquated methods and inadequate tools. In an effort to change the entire way of living and thinking of the Indian peasant, Village Community Schemes were started in 1955. The new approach was tried on 55 experimental “development blocks” each comprising roughly a hundred villages with about 55,000 people. An intensive effort was made in the field of education, in health improvement, agricultural modernization and in the organization of constructive group activities. Today, 400,000 of India’s 500,000 villages are covered by this scheme. India’s third Five Year Plan provides that, by 1963, community development work will extend over the entire country. Hangala Pura, 60 miles south of Mysore, in southern India, is typical of India’s 500,000 villages. Its inhabitants who are of the Lingayat casts, total 500. The village possesses 1,000 areas of good land for growing cereals and cotton and for raising cattle. It has 300 cows, 80 pairs of oxen, 120 sheep and 50 buffaloes. There are no pigs, no goats and no poultry. The Lingayats are vegetarian. People of Hangala Pura." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1559"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1559/afghanistan-quotziagul-becomes-a-nursequot-by-home">AFGHANISTAN: "Ziagul becomes a nurse" by Homer Page - 1960 <span>(22)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1559/afghanistan-quotziagul-becomes-a-nursequot-by-home" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/24474_458.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=8f20a6d3acb3517b37652fc1c83889b85814561f30beffa503db00348b84f716" alt="The helping hand of medical assistance reaches further out into the villages of Afghanistan with the completion of training of the country's first group of auxiliary nurse midwives. This training programme which is assisted by WHO is one of several destined to help improve the nursing services of Afghanistan. This photo story shows something of the varied duties of Ziagul, a 17-year old girl of Kabul, who recently graduated as an auxiliary nurse midwife. Ziagul had to take a 2 1/2 year course to qualify as an auxiliary nurse midwife." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="459.53177257525" style="margin-top:-79.765886287625px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The helping hand of medical assistance reaches further out into the villages of Afghanistan with the completion of training of the country's first group of auxiliary nurse midwives. This training programme which is assisted by WHO is one of several destined to help improve the nursing services of Afghanistan. This photo story shows something of the varied duties of Ziagul, a 17-year old girl of Kabul, who recently graduated as an auxiliary nurse midwife. Ziagul had to take a 2 1/2 year course to qualify as an auxiliary nurse midwife." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="459.53177257525" style="margin-top:-79.765886287625px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The helping hand of medical assistance reaches further out into the villages of Afghanistan with the completion of training of the country's first group of auxiliary nurse midwives. This training programme which is assisted by WHO is one of several destined to help improve the nursing services of Afghanistan. This photo story shows something of the varied duties of Ziagul, a 17-year old girl of Kabul, who recently graduated as an auxiliary nurse midwife. Ziagul had to take a 2 1/2 year course to qualify as an auxiliary nurse midwife." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="459.53177257525" style="margin-top:-79.765886287625px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1302"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1302/usa-quotthe-strange-case-of-johnnyquot-by-homer-pa">USA: "The strange case of Johnny" by Homer Page - 1959 <span>(5)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1302/usa-quotthe-strange-case-of-johnnyquot-by-homer-pa" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/21916_449.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=42a79d552c5ddf43baeb5fe9b73f610981c371707c69229e892bed9f6b199273" alt="The strange case of Johnny. He never spoke. He could scarcely walk. Anger and joy, laughter and tears were equally foreign to him. His start in life had been extraordinary, for with a birth weight of only a pound and a half Johnny was one of the smallest babies ever seen to live. Until he was two, his parents did nothing special about him, but one day they realized that he was not catching up with the other children and so the quest for help began. "Totally deaf", "schizophrenic", "mentally deficient", "should be in an institution" were among the many professional verdicts obtained on this strange case. But the parents persevered and at last succeeded in finding someone to lead their child out of his defensive isolation, out of his rigid emotional refusal to participate. He was six when his therapist saw him for the first time, and with quick intuition, she guessed that his hearing might not be defective at all. Johnny is now much more alive and has started to play with other children. But he scarcely talks all and has a long way to go before he will be well." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="450.5016722408" height="300" style="margin-left:-75.250836120401px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The strange case of Johnny. He never spoke. He could scarcely walk. Anger and joy, laughter and tears were equally foreign to him. His start in life had been extraordinary, for with a birth weight of only a pound and a half Johnny was one of the smallest babies ever seen to live. Until he was two, his parents did nothing special about him, but one day they realized that he was not catching up with the other children and so the quest for help began. "Totally deaf", "schizophrenic", "mentally deficient", "should be in an institution" were among the many professional verdicts obtained on this strange case. But the parents persevered and at last succeeded in finding someone to lead their child out of his defensive isolation, out of his rigid emotional refusal to participate. He was six when his therapist saw him for the first time, and with quick intuition, she guessed that his hearing might not be defective at all. Johnny is now much more alive and has started to play with other children. But he scarcely talks all and has a long way to go before he will be well." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="450.5016722408" height="300" style="margin-left:-75.250836120401px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The strange case of Johnny. He never spoke. He could scarcely walk. Anger and joy, laughter and tears were equally foreign to him. His start in life had been extraordinary, for with a birth weight of only a pound and a half Johnny was one of the smallest babies ever seen to live. Until he was two, his parents did nothing special about him, but one day they realized that he was not catching up with the other children and so the quest for help began. "Totally deaf", "schizophrenic", "mentally deficient", "should be in an institution" were among the many professional verdicts obtained on this strange case. But the parents persevered and at last succeeded in finding someone to lead their child out of his defensive isolation, out of his rigid emotional refusal to participate. He was six when his therapist saw him for the first time, and with quick intuition, she guessed that his hearing might not be defective at all. Johnny is now much more alive and has started to play with other children. But he scarcely talks all and has a long way to go before he will be well." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="450.5016722408" height="300" style="margin-left:-75.250836120401px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1291"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1291/guatemala-quotthe-villager-meets-the-20th-centuryq">GUATEMALA: "The villager meets the 20th century" by Paul Almasy - 1960 <span>(20)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1291/guatemala-quotthe-villager-meets-the-20th-centuryq" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/22690_307.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=09a1108347f8a7db20f4145e953f4b06d2b846a9bc3fa54b32e120570f27630f" alt="San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (63% of the population is rural in Central America and 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem, and in most countries, rural health services are only now taking root. The Deputy-mayor of San Jorge." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="307" style="margin-top:-3.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (63% of the population is rural in Central America and 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem, and in most countries, rural health services are only now taking root. The Deputy-mayor of San Jorge." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="307" style="margin-top:-3.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (63% of the population is rural in Central America and 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem, and in most countries, rural health services are only now taking root. The Deputy-mayor of San Jorge." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="307" style="margin-top:-3.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1301"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1301/angola-quotthe-fight-of-the-sleep-brigadesquot-by-">ANGOLA: "The fight of the sleep brigades" by Paul Almasy - 1959 <span>(8)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1301/angola-quotthe-fight-of-the-sleep-brigadesquot-by-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/30930_306.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=fc127128440092317a682243be605a6fb4cc9c06f304e2a4a2de27817068ac29" alt="The fight of the sleep brigades - From time immemorial, sleeping sickness held sway over an empire of nearly 5 million square miles, or almost 2/3 of the region of Africa south of the Sahara. Entire peoples fled before the tsetse fly and cattle were condemned to death. The retarded development of Africa was in some measure, due to this fearsome scourge. To fight the spread, great plans were put in operations in some part of Africa: mobile teams criss-crossed the bush and villages. At Gabinda, a wedge of Angola north of the Congo river, five of these mobile groups, called "sleep brigades", were continually working. Each one was composed of a doctor, 2 nurses, 21 microscope technicians, 10 sanitary workers, an administration, 3 drivers, 12 servants. From 1949 to 1958 the number of cases dropped from 15'785 to 917 and the number of new cases from 2.499 to 18, the best possible proof of preventive effect of their work. Mobile Team No. 2 installs itself at Dinge, a locality in the small Portuguese colony of Cabinda. A large temporary shelter - wooden poles and leafy branches - has been put up and the work starts. First phase: assembling the population for routine examination." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306" style="margin-top:-3px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The fight of the sleep brigades - From time immemorial, sleeping sickness held sway over an empire of nearly 5 million square miles, or almost 2/3 of the region of Africa south of the Sahara. Entire peoples fled before the tsetse fly and cattle were condemned to death. The retarded development of Africa was in some measure, due to this fearsome scourge. To fight the spread, great plans were put in operations in some part of Africa: mobile teams criss-crossed the bush and villages. At Gabinda, a wedge of Angola north of the Congo river, five of these mobile groups, called "sleep brigades", were continually working. Each one was composed of a doctor, 2 nurses, 21 microscope technicians, 10 sanitary workers, an administration, 3 drivers, 12 servants. From 1949 to 1958 the number of cases dropped from 15'785 to 917 and the number of new cases from 2.499 to 18, the best possible proof of preventive effect of their work. Mobile Team No. 2 installs itself at Dinge, a locality in the small Portuguese colony of Cabinda. A large temporary shelter - wooden poles and leafy branches - has been put up and the work starts. First phase: assembling the population for routine examination." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306" style="margin-top:-3px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The fight of the sleep brigades - From time immemorial, sleeping sickness held sway over an empire of nearly 5 million square miles, or almost 2/3 of the region of Africa south of the Sahara. Entire peoples fled before the tsetse fly and cattle were condemned to death. The retarded development of Africa was in some measure, due to this fearsome scourge. To fight the spread, great plans were put in operations in some part of Africa: mobile teams criss-crossed the bush and villages. At Gabinda, a wedge of Angola north of the Congo river, five of these mobile groups, called "sleep brigades", were continually working. Each one was composed of a doctor, 2 nurses, 21 microscope technicians, 10 sanitary workers, an administration, 3 drivers, 12 servants. From 1949 to 1958 the number of cases dropped from 15'785 to 917 and the number of new cases from 2.499 to 18, the best possible proof of preventive effect of their work. Mobile Team No. 2 installs itself at Dinge, a locality in the small Portuguese colony of Cabinda. A large temporary shelter - wooden poles and leafy branches - has been put up and the work starts. First phase: assembling the population for routine examination." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306" style="margin-top:-3px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1317"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1317/paraguay-quot-iodized-salt-against-goitrequot-by-p">PARAGUAY : " Iodized salt against goitre" by Paul Almasy - 1959 <span>(10)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1317/paraguay-quot-iodized-salt-against-goitrequot-by-p" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/21294_308.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=bb7862257b8f63cde33b222c883741ec3039537394e8ceaa3478eb5534e8da0d" alt="Iodized salt against goitre. Until recently a large part of the population of Paraguay suffered from goitre, a nutrition-deficiency disease causing the thyroid gland in the neck to swell, affecting millions of people in the Americas. Man has known goitre since the most ancient times. The doctors have known the remedy for over century : iodized salt. In the Asuncion region of Paraguay, there are villages where a large proportion of the inhabitants still suffer from goitre. These photos were taken in the villages of Ytauaga, Cascupe and Ita. In the schools, the children are regularly checked for symptoms of goitre. Photo shows Dr Tito E. Velilla, Director of the Paraguay Goitre Institute, examining the children one by one." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="309.03010033445" style="margin-top:-4.5150501672241px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Iodized salt against goitre. Until recently a large part of the population of Paraguay suffered from goitre, a nutrition-deficiency disease causing the thyroid gland in the neck to swell, affecting millions of people in the Americas. Man has known goitre since the most ancient times. The doctors have known the remedy for over century : iodized salt. In the Asuncion region of Paraguay, there are villages where a large proportion of the inhabitants still suffer from goitre. These photos were taken in the villages of Ytauaga, Cascupe and Ita. In the schools, the children are regularly checked for symptoms of goitre. Photo shows Dr Tito E. Velilla, Director of the Paraguay Goitre Institute, examining the children one by one." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="309.03010033445" style="margin-top:-4.5150501672241px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Iodized salt against goitre. Until recently a large part of the population of Paraguay suffered from goitre, a nutrition-deficiency disease causing the thyroid gland in the neck to swell, affecting millions of people in the Americas. Man has known goitre since the most ancient times. The doctors have known the remedy for over century : iodized salt. In the Asuncion region of Paraguay, there are villages where a large proportion of the inhabitants still suffer from goitre. These photos were taken in the villages of Ytauaga, Cascupe and Ita. In the schools, the children are regularly checked for symptoms of goitre. Photo shows Dr Tito E. Velilla, Director of the Paraguay Goitre Institute, examining the children one by one." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="309.03010033445" style="margin-top:-4.5150501672241px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1575"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1575/ghana-quotaffiaman-villagequot-by-paul-almasy-1959">GHANA: "Affiaman village" by Paul Almasy - 1959 <span>(12)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1575/ghana-quotaffiaman-villagequot-by-paul-almasy-1959" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/30453_304.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=06c57b15b9def1a587f6c231cf628edf2f8bf5d79f322505141b7227c75b31a8" alt="Affiaman is a typical Ghanaian village, to the east of Accra, in the interior of the country. It has 200 inhabitants, who all live on the land. In Affiaman, life has changed little for centuries. Amoo Kodjoe, 40-year-old, owns some land on which he cultivates "cassava" (sweet potatoes), corn and fruit. He inherited his 1.5 km2 (nearly a square mile) of land from his father and lets out a large part of it to the villagers. A number of village council he deputizes for the chief in the latter's absence. Kodjoe has a wife, Afadua, aged 30 years and 3 children: Darku,7, Otinkrano, 3 and Otinkronna, 5 months. All inhabitants of Affiaman are pagan. The right food at the right moment for all members of the family will avoid wasting." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Affiaman is a typical Ghanaian village, to the east of Accra, in the interior of the country. It has 200 inhabitants, who all live on the land. In Affiaman, life has changed little for centuries. Amoo Kodjoe, 40-year-old, owns some land on which he cultivates "cassava" (sweet potatoes), corn and fruit. He inherited his 1.5 km2 (nearly a square mile) of land from his father and lets out a large part of it to the villagers. A number of village council he deputizes for the chief in the latter's absence. Kodjoe has a wife, Afadua, aged 30 years and 3 children: Darku,7, Otinkrano, 3 and Otinkronna, 5 months. All inhabitants of Affiaman are pagan. The right food at the right moment for all members of the family will avoid wasting." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Affiaman is a typical Ghanaian village, to the east of Accra, in the interior of the country. It has 200 inhabitants, who all live on the land. In Affiaman, life has changed little for centuries. Amoo Kodjoe, 40-year-old, owns some land on which he cultivates "cassava" (sweet potatoes), corn and fruit. He inherited his 1.5 km2 (nearly a square mile) of land from his father and lets out a large part of it to the villagers. A number of village council he deputizes for the chief in the latter's absence. Kodjoe has a wife, Afadua, aged 30 years and 3 children: Darku,7, Otinkrano, 3 and Otinkronna, 5 months. All inhabitants of Affiaman are pagan. The right food at the right moment for all members of the family will avoid wasting." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1339"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1339/france-quotthe-day-of-an-office-worker-in-parisquo">FRANCE: "The day of an office worker in Paris" by Robert Doisneau - 1959 <span>(25)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1339/france-quotthe-day-of-an-office-worker-in-parisquo" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/28197_336.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=190d98a93f1d1caab13ef7f66b0ff2fd4e68f80854250a207d2f535ba58cbe7d" alt="Victims of the city : Denise F., aged 21, is one of the young women who receive the public at the central administration of the "Sécurité Sociale", the French sickness insurance scheme. Her husband being in the army, her day is taken up by office work, long and tiring journeys to and from the office, household chores and visits to her own and her husband's families, who help her to take care of her 6 month-old baby, Marc. For a woman who works in a large city, there is the inevitable rush to catch the train to and from the suburbs. To catch the "metro" connection on another platform. To arrive at office or shop on time. To catch the grocer before he shuts. When the office closes, her work is not over and she starts again long before the office opening hour. And there are also glaring lights, noise, polluted air, and crowds with their nerves often on edge. 6 PM. Going home takes again 1 hour and 20 minutes. Her salary amounts to 420 NF a month plus allowances (about 240 NF.)" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="337.1237458194" height="300" style="margin-left:-18.561872909699px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Victims of the city : Denise F., aged 21, is one of the young women who receive the public at the central administration of the "Sécurité Sociale", the French sickness insurance scheme. Her husband being in the army, her day is taken up by office work, long and tiring journeys to and from the office, household chores and visits to her own and her husband's families, who help her to take care of her 6 month-old baby, Marc. For a woman who works in a large city, there is the inevitable rush to catch the train to and from the suburbs. To catch the "metro" connection on another platform. To arrive at office or shop on time. To catch the grocer before he shuts. When the office closes, her work is not over and she starts again long before the office opening hour. And there are also glaring lights, noise, polluted air, and crowds with their nerves often on edge. 6 PM. Going home takes again 1 hour and 20 minutes. Her salary amounts to 420 NF a month plus allowances (about 240 NF.)" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="337.1237458194" height="300" style="margin-left:-18.561872909699px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Victims of the city : Denise F., aged 21, is one of the young women who receive the public at the central administration of the "Sécurité Sociale", the French sickness insurance scheme. Her husband being in the army, her day is taken up by office work, long and tiring journeys to and from the office, household chores and visits to her own and her husband's families, who help her to take care of her 6 month-old baby, Marc. For a woman who works in a large city, there is the inevitable rush to catch the train to and from the suburbs. To catch the "metro" connection on another platform. To arrive at office or shop on time. To catch the grocer before he shuts. When the office closes, her work is not over and she starts again long before the office opening hour. And there are also glaring lights, noise, polluted air, and crowds with their nerves often on edge. 6 PM. Going home takes again 1 hour and 20 minutes. Her salary amounts to 420 NF a month plus allowances (about 240 NF.)" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="337.1237458194" height="300" style="margin-left:-18.561872909699px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1295"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1295/india-quoteyes-that-need-weep-no-morequot-by-homer">INDIA: "Eyes that need weep no more" by Homer Page - 1959 <span>(22)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <span class="editors_pick" title="Editor's Pick"></span> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1295/india-quoteyes-that-need-weep-no-morequot-by-homer" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/33843_422.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=403d72a229e1d3d524630cc5bda7ea664eca5e092ce13ffded27b5651de8184a" alt="In 1959 it was estimated that nearly 400 million people suffered from trachoma. Though this eye infection does not kill, it can last a lifetime if untreated. Its victims often become blind. In India, trachoma was the largest single cause of preventable blindness. In some rural areas of Northern India the infection rate was as high as 80-90 per cent of the total population. A WHO-assisted pilot project trachoma team based at the Gandhi Eye Hospital in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, visited the region village by village, examining patients and organizing antibiotic treatment, and carrying out research to determinate the ways in which infection spread. The methods of attack proved effective in preventing blindness but complete control of trachoma and associated bacterial conjunctivitis requires the support of long-term health education and environmental sanitation programmes. The manner of applying eye cosmetics ("kohl") widely in Eastern countries for both woman and children, is suspected to play an important part in spreading eye infections. A mother with infected eyes can easily pass on the infection to her children, or from one infected child to another, while applying cosmetics to her eyes or those of her children with the same finger or "pencil"." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="422" height="300" style="margin-left:-61px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="In 1959 it was estimated that nearly 400 million people suffered from trachoma. Though this eye infection does not kill, it can last a lifetime if untreated. Its victims often become blind. In India, trachoma was the largest single cause of preventable blindness. In some rural areas of Northern India the infection rate was as high as 80-90 per cent of the total population. A WHO-assisted pilot project trachoma team based at the Gandhi Eye Hospital in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, visited the region village by village, examining patients and organizing antibiotic treatment, and carrying out research to determinate the ways in which infection spread. The methods of attack proved effective in preventing blindness but complete control of trachoma and associated bacterial conjunctivitis requires the support of long-term health education and environmental sanitation programmes. The manner of applying eye cosmetics ("kohl") widely in Eastern countries for both woman and children, is suspected to play an important part in spreading eye infections. A mother with infected eyes can easily pass on the infection to her children, or from one infected child to another, while applying cosmetics to her eyes or those of her children with the same finger or "pencil"." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="422" height="300" style="margin-left:-61px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="In 1959 it was estimated that nearly 400 million people suffered from trachoma. Though this eye infection does not kill, it can last a lifetime if untreated. Its victims often become blind. In India, trachoma was the largest single cause of preventable blindness. In some rural areas of Northern India the infection rate was as high as 80-90 per cent of the total population. A WHO-assisted pilot project trachoma team based at the Gandhi Eye Hospital in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, visited the region village by village, examining patients and organizing antibiotic treatment, and carrying out research to determinate the ways in which infection spread. The methods of attack proved effective in preventing blindness but complete control of trachoma and associated bacterial conjunctivitis requires the support of long-term health education and environmental sanitation programmes. The manner of applying eye cosmetics ("kohl") widely in Eastern countries for both woman and children, is suspected to play an important part in spreading eye infections. A mother with infected eyes can easily pass on the infection to her children, or from one infected child to another, while applying cosmetics to her eyes or those of her children with the same finger or "pencil"." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="422" height="300" style="margin-left:-61px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1303"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1303/peru-quotwait-for-waterquot-by-paul-almasy-1959">PERU: "Wait for water" by Paul Almasy - 1959 <span>(19)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1303/peru-quotwait-for-waterquot-by-paul-almasy-1959" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/23006_304.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=8b2e90058b29f29bde9900de318f6b80fb6980761ea09c340067d86b322dd41e" alt="Wait for water - Three times a week, drinking water came to this suburb of 25,000 inhabitants. At variable pressure, it flowed for about three hours in the morning from three small pipes. The queue formed early: first come, first served. The order was the order of cans. But when the trickle ceased, not every can had been filled, and, facing the snow-covered mountains, a silent queue awaited the next day that the water would start flowing again. At 6 a.m. the water begins to flow. Each family is entitled to 2 or 3 cans. The queue begins forming early in the morning." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Wait for water - Three times a week, drinking water came to this suburb of 25,000 inhabitants. At variable pressure, it flowed for about three hours in the morning from three small pipes. The queue formed early: first come, first served. The order was the order of cans. But when the trickle ceased, not every can had been filled, and, facing the snow-covered mountains, a silent queue awaited the next day that the water would start flowing again. At 6 a.m. the water begins to flow. Each family is entitled to 2 or 3 cans. The queue begins forming early in the morning." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Wait for water - Three times a week, drinking water came to this suburb of 25,000 inhabitants. At variable pressure, it flowed for about three hours in the morning from three small pipes. The queue formed early: first come, first served. The order was the order of cans. But when the trickle ceased, not every can had been filled, and, facing the snow-covered mountains, a silent queue awaited the next day that the water would start flowing again. At 6 a.m. the water begins to flow. Each family is entitled to 2 or 3 cans. The queue begins forming early in the morning." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1288"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1288/liberia-quotthe-track-of-anopheles-gambiaequot-by-">LIBERIA: "The track of Anopheles gambiae" by Paul Almasy - 1959 <span>(16)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1288/liberia-quotthe-track-of-anopheles-gambiaequot-by-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/30008_304.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001409Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=2ee7951c163c92afe3d3efe65dc61ac1f7e3bd0058eb16425c27bef0f13177c9" alt="Across the jungle of western Africa scientist tracked down an evil genius "Gambiae". Anopheles gambiae is the name of the mosquito that is the main carrier of malaria in Africa. Studying the behaviour of gambiae, its disconcerting habits, its cunning hiding places, was one of the tasks of the WHO advisory teams that assisted governments. They tried to define the problem and to determine the best and cheapest methods to interrupt the transmission of the disease. This enormous undertaking, conducted on a continent-wide scale, was actively supported by UNICEF, which furnished transport, insecticides, medicine, spraying equipment and other necessary material. In Liberia, a joint WHO-UNICEF-National Public Health Service Malaria Project was in operation between September 1958 and June 1959. 142,416 persons were directly protected against malaria during this period. This small African girl who has just given blood for diagnosis will be protected against malaria, thanks to cooperation between Government of Liberia, UNICEF and WHO." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Across the jungle of western Africa scientist tracked down an evil genius "Gambiae". Anopheles gambiae is the name of the mosquito that is the main carrier of malaria in Africa. Studying the behaviour of gambiae, its disconcerting habits, its cunning hiding places, was one of the tasks of the WHO advisory teams that assisted governments. They tried to define the problem and to determine the best and cheapest methods to interrupt the transmission of the disease. This enormous undertaking, conducted on a continent-wide scale, was actively supported by UNICEF, which furnished transport, insecticides, medicine, spraying equipment and other necessary material. In Liberia, a joint WHO-UNICEF-National Public Health Service Malaria Project was in operation between September 1958 and June 1959. 142,416 persons were directly protected against malaria during this period. This small African girl who has just given blood for diagnosis will be protected against malaria, thanks to cooperation between Government of Liberia, UNICEF and WHO." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Across the jungle of western Africa scientist tracked down an evil genius "Gambiae". Anopheles gambiae is the name of the mosquito that is the main carrier of malaria in Africa. Studying the behaviour of gambiae, its disconcerting habits, its cunning hiding places, was one of the tasks of the WHO advisory teams that assisted governments. They tried to define the problem and to determine the best and cheapest methods to interrupt the transmission of the disease. This enormous undertaking, conducted on a continent-wide scale, was actively supported by UNICEF, which furnished transport, insecticides, medicine, spraying equipment and other necessary material. In Liberia, a joint WHO-UNICEF-National Public Health Service Malaria Project was in operation between September 1958 and June 1959. 142,416 persons were directly protected against malaria during this period. This small African girl who has just given blood for diagnosis will be protected against malaria, thanks to cooperation between Government of Liberia, UNICEF and WHO." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304" style="margin-top:-2px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1375"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1375/india-quotagainst-the-bad-coughquot-by-paul-almasy">INDIA: "Against the bad cough" by Paul Almasy - 1959 <span>(32)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1375/india-quotagainst-the-bad-coughquot-by-paul-almasy" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/33781_310.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=8b8d4d3d90c35f3caa33e827e0483eae676488ab24d8281c72d87379034f3cad" alt="India against the bad cough - In 1959, India had over 5 million cases of tuberculosis. Two thirds of her population were carriers of virulent tuberculosis bacilli. By systematically vaccinating the rising generation and with the help of chemotherapy, India was hoping gradually to redress the balance. Mobile X-ray units went from village to village, young sociologists convinced the inhabitants that they should not dissimulate the disease; visiting nurses made sure that the sick followed their treatment. But housing and sanitation sometimes left much to be desired and efforts had to be intensified if the disease was to be brought under control. Our photos show what has been done, with WHO help, in the district of Tumkur, State of Mysore, to fight tuberculosis. Few old people come for examination. Most of them care little for life: they spurn treatment. As carriers of the bacillus, they are a constant danger to the people around them." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="310" style="margin-top:-5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="India against the bad cough - In 1959, India had over 5 million cases of tuberculosis. Two thirds of her population were carriers of virulent tuberculosis bacilli. By systematically vaccinating the rising generation and with the help of chemotherapy, India was hoping gradually to redress the balance. Mobile X-ray units went from village to village, young sociologists convinced the inhabitants that they should not dissimulate the disease; visiting nurses made sure that the sick followed their treatment. But housing and sanitation sometimes left much to be desired and efforts had to be intensified if the disease was to be brought under control. Our photos show what has been done, with WHO help, in the district of Tumkur, State of Mysore, to fight tuberculosis. Few old people come for examination. Most of them care little for life: they spurn treatment. As carriers of the bacillus, they are a constant danger to the people around them." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="310" style="margin-top:-5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="India against the bad cough - In 1959, India had over 5 million cases of tuberculosis. Two thirds of her population were carriers of virulent tuberculosis bacilli. By systematically vaccinating the rising generation and with the help of chemotherapy, India was hoping gradually to redress the balance. Mobile X-ray units went from village to village, young sociologists convinced the inhabitants that they should not dissimulate the disease; visiting nurses made sure that the sick followed their treatment. But housing and sanitation sometimes left much to be desired and efforts had to be intensified if the disease was to be brought under control. Our photos show what has been done, with WHO help, in the district of Tumkur, State of Mysore, to fight tuberculosis. Few old people come for examination. Most of them care little for life: they spurn treatment. As carriers of the bacillus, they are a constant danger to the people around them." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="310" style="margin-top:-5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1329"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1329/benin-quotthe-work-of-a-country-doctorquot-by-paul">BENIN: "The work of a country doctor" by Paul Almasy - 1959 <span>(19)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1329/benin-quotthe-work-of-a-country-doctorquot-by-paul" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/30794_303.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=2bff3755ac7da22667f728c193999dc499efb117c8c50031d0155d669ceec460" alt="Dr Clovis Akindes of Porto-Novo, Benin, is one of the many African doctors trained by the medical school at Dakar. Attached to the services that organize campaigns against sweeping endemic diseases, he is particularly concerned with malaria, but must nevertheless take care of all the ills he sees in the course of his daily rounds." Often a bench is the only place for examinations when a village has no dispensary" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Dr Clovis Akindes of Porto-Novo, Benin, is one of the many African doctors trained by the medical school at Dakar. Attached to the services that organize campaigns against sweeping endemic diseases, he is particularly concerned with malaria, but must nevertheless take care of all the ills he sees in the course of his daily rounds." Often a bench is the only place for examinations when a village has no dispensary" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Dr Clovis Akindes of Porto-Novo, Benin, is one of the many African doctors trained by the medical school at Dakar. Attached to the services that organize campaigns against sweeping endemic diseases, he is particularly concerned with malaria, but must nevertheless take care of all the ills he sees in the course of his daily rounds." Often a bench is the only place for examinations when a village has no dispensary" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1371"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1371/thailand-quotleprosy-control-programquot-by-jean-m">THAILAND: "Leprosy control program" by Jean Manevy - 1959 <span>(15)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1371/thailand-quotleprosy-control-programquot-by-jean-m" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/46978_300.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=ff57b01c5d1906d46a2a3ca38587d09f4c5781dbaaa33ef5d3562aef018bdac9" alt="Part of the leprosy control programme set up by WHO in Khon Kaen Province, Thailand, at the request of the Thai Government, concerned the creation of a model village at Ban Noi where leprosy patients can live normal family lives, cultivating the land, building their own homes and running their own shops and cafes. They were sick, but modern treatment was arresting, if not curing their sickness, and helping them to smile again. Ban Noi ("little village") was inhabited only by leprosy sufferers - 250 in all. Patients at the leprosarium of Khon Kaen have nothing else to do but await their cure. According to Dr Ramon Miquel, leader of the WHO Leprosy Control Team, patients treated in leprosaria require twice as long to recover as those treated at home or in a village for leprosy sufferers such as Ban Noi. Their segregation delays their return to normal life. At Ban Noi, they live a normal family life, cultivating the land, building their own homes, running their own restaurant and shops." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Part of the leprosy control programme set up by WHO in Khon Kaen Province, Thailand, at the request of the Thai Government, concerned the creation of a model village at Ban Noi where leprosy patients can live normal family lives, cultivating the land, building their own homes and running their own shops and cafes. They were sick, but modern treatment was arresting, if not curing their sickness, and helping them to smile again. Ban Noi ("little village") was inhabited only by leprosy sufferers - 250 in all. Patients at the leprosarium of Khon Kaen have nothing else to do but await their cure. According to Dr Ramon Miquel, leader of the WHO Leprosy Control Team, patients treated in leprosaria require twice as long to recover as those treated at home or in a village for leprosy sufferers such as Ban Noi. Their segregation delays their return to normal life. At Ban Noi, they live a normal family life, cultivating the land, building their own homes, running their own restaurant and shops." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Part of the leprosy control programme set up by WHO in Khon Kaen Province, Thailand, at the request of the Thai Government, concerned the creation of a model village at Ban Noi where leprosy patients can live normal family lives, cultivating the land, building their own homes and running their own shops and cafes. They were sick, but modern treatment was arresting, if not curing their sickness, and helping them to smile again. Ban Noi ("little village") was inhabited only by leprosy sufferers - 250 in all. Patients at the leprosarium of Khon Kaen have nothing else to do but await their cure. According to Dr Ramon Miquel, leader of the WHO Leprosy Control Team, patients treated in leprosaria require twice as long to recover as those treated at home or in a village for leprosy sufferers such as Ban Noi. Their segregation delays their return to normal life. At Ban Noi, they live a normal family life, cultivating the land, building their own homes, running their own restaurant and shops." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1574"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1574/ghana-quottema-a-new-town-and-new-way-of-lifequot-">GHANA: "Tema, a new town and new way of life" by Paul Almasy - 1959 <span>(23)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1574/ghana-quottema-a-new-town-and-new-way-of-lifequot-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/29300_302.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=1b26744bdb1b051d54facbc122e1abe34a5aee1abb9b908db57318cf28316ccb" alt="Tema, new port of Ghana - A new town and new way of life The most spectacular aspect of the evolution taking place in Africa today is the appearance of vast work sites from which the industrial structure of the continent is emerging. In Ghana, construction of the new port of Tema is the country's most important development project. Twenty ships of the highest tonnage will be able to berth alongside. Its quays at the same time. it will be the most important port in Ghana or even the whole of the Gulf of Guinea. A new town is already springing up in the port's hinterland under the auspices of the Tema Development Corporation. It will be composed of Seven (7) communities and the first with thirty thousand (30,000) inhabitants at present. - is already completed. The plans provide for the possibility of Tema developing in Twenty years into a town of 400,00 inhabitants. Photos show the life of a worker and his family installed in the new town. Henri Nartei Akonor, 45, was born at Ningo, a fishing village some thirty miles to the East of Tema. He attended the Methodist Mission School and then set up as a Tailor in the village of Dodowa, twenty-four miles from Accra. He learned to drive a lorry when he was in the Army during the war, and a year and a half ago he arrived in Tema with his family and found work as a lorry driver, His wife Afua, is thirty-five. He has five children: John, 22 (by a former marriage), Genette, 18, Benjamin, 17, Sam, 4. Schools are high priority demands of the people of Ghana. They are ranked in importance with drinking water and health centers. George (at the top of the chute) goes every day to the nursery school. " extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Tema, new port of Ghana - A new town and new way of life The most spectacular aspect of the evolution taking place in Africa today is the appearance of vast work sites from which the industrial structure of the continent is emerging. In Ghana, construction of the new port of Tema is the country's most important development project. Twenty ships of the highest tonnage will be able to berth alongside. Its quays at the same time. it will be the most important port in Ghana or even the whole of the Gulf of Guinea. A new town is already springing up in the port's hinterland under the auspices of the Tema Development Corporation. It will be composed of Seven (7) communities and the first with thirty thousand (30,000) inhabitants at present. - is already completed. The plans provide for the possibility of Tema developing in Twenty years into a town of 400,00 inhabitants. Photos show the life of a worker and his family installed in the new town. Henri Nartei Akonor, 45, was born at Ningo, a fishing village some thirty miles to the East of Tema. He attended the Methodist Mission School and then set up as a Tailor in the village of Dodowa, twenty-four miles from Accra. He learned to drive a lorry when he was in the Army during the war, and a year and a half ago he arrived in Tema with his family and found work as a lorry driver, His wife Afua, is thirty-five. He has five children: John, 22 (by a former marriage), Genette, 18, Benjamin, 17, Sam, 4. Schools are high priority demands of the people of Ghana. They are ranked in importance with drinking water and health centers. George (at the top of the chute) goes every day to the nursery school. " extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Tema, new port of Ghana - A new town and new way of life The most spectacular aspect of the evolution taking place in Africa today is the appearance of vast work sites from which the industrial structure of the continent is emerging. In Ghana, construction of the new port of Tema is the country's most important development project. Twenty ships of the highest tonnage will be able to berth alongside. Its quays at the same time. it will be the most important port in Ghana or even the whole of the Gulf of Guinea. A new town is already springing up in the port's hinterland under the auspices of the Tema Development Corporation. It will be composed of Seven (7) communities and the first with thirty thousand (30,000) inhabitants at present. - is already completed. The plans provide for the possibility of Tema developing in Twenty years into a town of 400,00 inhabitants. Photos show the life of a worker and his family installed in the new town. Henri Nartei Akonor, 45, was born at Ningo, a fishing village some thirty miles to the East of Tema. He attended the Methodist Mission School and then set up as a Tailor in the village of Dodowa, twenty-four miles from Accra. He learned to drive a lorry when he was in the Army during the war, and a year and a half ago he arrived in Tema with his family and found work as a lorry driver, His wife Afua, is thirty-five. He has five children: John, 22 (by a former marriage), Genette, 18, Benjamin, 17, Sam, 4. Schools are high priority demands of the people of Ghana. They are ranked in importance with drinking water and health centers. George (at the top of the chute) goes every day to the nursery school. " extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302" style="margin-top:-1px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1341"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1341/trkiye-quottreating-tuberculosisquot-by-eric-schwa">TÜRKIYE: "Treating tuberculosis" by Eric Schwab - 1958 <span>(71)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1341/trkiye-quottreating-tuberculosisquot-by-eric-schwa" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/28808_322.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=41ac6c601de91beacc8b784074bf88ba1acc0e73c9d0b7c74eab39543a16a194" alt="Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory disease.In healthy people, infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis often causes no symptoms, since the person's immune system acts to "wall off" the bacteria. The symptoms of active TB of the lung are coughing, sometimes with sputum or blood, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, fever and night sweats. Tuberculosis is treatable with a six-month course of antibiotics. The waiting room of the dispensary." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="322" style="margin-top:-11px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory disease.In healthy people, infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis often causes no symptoms, since the person's immune system acts to "wall off" the bacteria. The symptoms of active TB of the lung are coughing, sometimes with sputum or blood, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, fever and night sweats. Tuberculosis is treatable with a six-month course of antibiotics. The waiting room of the dispensary." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="322" style="margin-top:-11px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory disease.In healthy people, infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis often causes no symptoms, since the person's immune system acts to "wall off" the bacteria. The symptoms of active TB of the lung are coughing, sometimes with sputum or blood, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, fever and night sweats. Tuberculosis is treatable with a six-month course of antibiotics. The waiting room of the dispensary." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="322" style="margin-top:-11px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_220"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div>  <span class="info_desc"><div class="teaserText hoverFileInfo"><p>Dr Edmond, country doctor in a small town in the Department of the Creuse, a rugged, highland area in the centre of France, came from a long line of country doctors: The Edmonds have been country doctors through father and son since the reign of Louis XIV. Dr Edmond's realm covered a radius of 20 kilometres around his home. In 40 years of practice (during which time he wore out ten cars, travelling a million kilometres on his rounds and attending some 150,000 patients), Dr Edmond saw public health problems shift from tuberculosis, venereal diseases, death in child birth and infant mortality to cancer. </p></div></span> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/220/france-quotthe-end-of-an-epochquot-by-robert-doisn">FRANCE: "The end of an epoch" by Robert Doisneau - 1958 <span>(31)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/220/france-quotthe-end-of-an-epochquot-by-robert-doisn" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/26264_301.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=cf4d2d1dfabc7df85b24ab69e2979f1db248ddba364313ab9d737eb11a181efd" alt="The end of an epoch 68-year-old Dr Edmond, country doctor in a small town in the Department of the Creuse, a rugged, highland area in the center of France, came from a long line of country doctors: The Edmonds have been country doctors through father and son since the reign of Louis XIV. Dr Edmond's realm covered a radius of 20 kilometers around his home. In 40 years of practice (during which time he wore out ten cars, travelling a million kilometers on his rounds and attending some 150,000 patients), Dr Edmond saw public health problems shift from tuberculosis, venereal diseases, death in child birth and infant mortality to cancer. "I do not get any more tuberculosis" said Dr Edmond. "Venereal diseases have disappeared and the babies are all born at the maternity ward with the bill paid by 'Social Security'. Only 30 km away, I have a radiologist, different specialists, two surgeons, a 90-bed hospital and a 60-bed clinic at my disposal. If there should be an epidemic, the Departmental Health Service takes over. Today, I am as well equipped as a town doctor to treat my patients. Perhaps even better, because I know them all as well as if they were my own family". Dr Edmond out on a Sunday walk." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302.00668896321" style="margin-top:-1.0033444816054px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The end of an epoch 68-year-old Dr Edmond, country doctor in a small town in the Department of the Creuse, a rugged, highland area in the center of France, came from a long line of country doctors: The Edmonds have been country doctors through father and son since the reign of Louis XIV. Dr Edmond's realm covered a radius of 20 kilometers around his home. In 40 years of practice (during which time he wore out ten cars, travelling a million kilometers on his rounds and attending some 150,000 patients), Dr Edmond saw public health problems shift from tuberculosis, venereal diseases, death in child birth and infant mortality to cancer. "I do not get any more tuberculosis" said Dr Edmond. "Venereal diseases have disappeared and the babies are all born at the maternity ward with the bill paid by 'Social Security'. Only 30 km away, I have a radiologist, different specialists, two surgeons, a 90-bed hospital and a 60-bed clinic at my disposal. If there should be an epidemic, the Departmental Health Service takes over. Today, I am as well equipped as a town doctor to treat my patients. Perhaps even better, because I know them all as well as if they were my own family". Dr Edmond out on a Sunday walk." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302.00668896321" style="margin-top:-1.0033444816054px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The end of an epoch 68-year-old Dr Edmond, country doctor in a small town in the Department of the Creuse, a rugged, highland area in the center of France, came from a long line of country doctors: The Edmonds have been country doctors through father and son since the reign of Louis XIV. Dr Edmond's realm covered a radius of 20 kilometers around his home. In 40 years of practice (during which time he wore out ten cars, travelling a million kilometers on his rounds and attending some 150,000 patients), Dr Edmond saw public health problems shift from tuberculosis, venereal diseases, death in child birth and infant mortality to cancer. "I do not get any more tuberculosis" said Dr Edmond. "Venereal diseases have disappeared and the babies are all born at the maternity ward with the bill paid by 'Social Security'. Only 30 km away, I have a radiologist, different specialists, two surgeons, a 90-bed hospital and a 60-bed clinic at my disposal. If there should be an epidemic, the Departmental Health Service takes over. Today, I am as well equipped as a town doctor to treat my patients. Perhaps even better, because I know them all as well as if they were my own family". Dr Edmond out on a Sunday walk." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="302.00668896321" style="margin-top:-1.0033444816054px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1333"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1333/morocco-quotopen-your-eyesquot-1958">MOROCCO: "Open Your Eyes" - 1958 <span>(53)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1333/morocco-quotopen-your-eyesquot-1958" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/23729_375.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=db1dbe24052666c3028bbac54c56fb8f9a20dfe13fab93cec626022f7bba8e9a" alt=""Open Your Eyes" is the title of a 16mm, colour film, 16 minutes in length, produced in 1958 by the World Health Organization. It describes the national campaign against eye diseases carried out in Morocco by the Ministry of Health with assistance from WHO and UNICEF. It was filmed in the province of Ouarzazate by Gunter von Fritsch and shows the way in which the country-wide campaign against eye diseases was taken into every Moroccan town and village, and the treatment used to rid the country of eye diseases that handicapped its population for centuries. The campaign covered the first examination and treatment, the follow-up period of auto-treatment, the free distribution of antibiotic ointment to the schools for use with children afflicted with eye diseases, the Government's method of distributing the ointment through tobacco stores, and the training of young people to take part in this national effort. An age-old scene of poverty and dependence. The two blind men subsist on alms donated by passer-by; the boy sleeping in the moon-day heat serves as their "eyes"." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="375" style="margin-top:-37.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt=""Open Your Eyes" is the title of a 16mm, colour film, 16 minutes in length, produced in 1958 by the World Health Organization. It describes the national campaign against eye diseases carried out in Morocco by the Ministry of Health with assistance from WHO and UNICEF. It was filmed in the province of Ouarzazate by Gunter von Fritsch and shows the way in which the country-wide campaign against eye diseases was taken into every Moroccan town and village, and the treatment used to rid the country of eye diseases that handicapped its population for centuries. The campaign covered the first examination and treatment, the follow-up period of auto-treatment, the free distribution of antibiotic ointment to the schools for use with children afflicted with eye diseases, the Government's method of distributing the ointment through tobacco stores, and the training of young people to take part in this national effort. An age-old scene of poverty and dependence. The two blind men subsist on alms donated by passer-by; the boy sleeping in the moon-day heat serves as their "eyes"." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="375" style="margin-top:-37.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt=""Open Your Eyes" is the title of a 16mm, colour film, 16 minutes in length, produced in 1958 by the World Health Organization. It describes the national campaign against eye diseases carried out in Morocco by the Ministry of Health with assistance from WHO and UNICEF. It was filmed in the province of Ouarzazate by Gunter von Fritsch and shows the way in which the country-wide campaign against eye diseases was taken into every Moroccan town and village, and the treatment used to rid the country of eye diseases that handicapped its population for centuries. The campaign covered the first examination and treatment, the follow-up period of auto-treatment, the free distribution of antibiotic ointment to the schools for use with children afflicted with eye diseases, the Government's method of distributing the ointment through tobacco stores, and the training of young people to take part in this national effort. An age-old scene of poverty and dependence. The two blind men subsist on alms donated by passer-by; the boy sleeping in the moon-day heat serves as their "eyes"." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="375" style="margin-top:-37.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1373"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div>  <span class="info_desc"><div class="teaserText hoverFileInfo"><p><p>Recently added photographs still appear in relevant galleries and in search.</p></p></div></span> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1373/switzerland-quotjean-piaget-and-the-psychology-of-">SWITZERLAND: "Jean Piaget and the psychology of the child" by Eric Schwab - 1958 <span>(28)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1373/switzerland-quotjean-piaget-and-the-psychology-of-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/26226_305.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=013debd5ba1107d1263b8c74ca80196aa8eee42ec4f206da1ec817cd2b7f9d24" alt="Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 - 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology". Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual". Piaget created the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva in 1955 and directed it until his death in 1980. Catherine explains to her school-mates the test she has taken at the Institute for the Sciences of Education." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306.02006688963" style="margin-top:-3.0100334448161px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 - 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology". Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual". Piaget created the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva in 1955 and directed it until his death in 1980. Catherine explains to her school-mates the test she has taken at the Institute for the Sciences of Education." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306.02006688963" style="margin-top:-3.0100334448161px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 - 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology". Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual". Piaget created the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva in 1955 and directed it until his death in 1980. Catherine explains to her school-mates the test she has taken at the Institute for the Sciences of Education." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="306.02006688963" style="margin-top:-3.0100334448161px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_224"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div>  <span class="info_desc"><div class="teaserText hoverFileInfo"><p>1958: Dr Luigi Mara spent the last four years in a relentless mosquito hunt all across malaria-ridden Kurdistan in Iraq. He managed to win the confidence of the Kurds, and was known among them as "Dr Malaria".</p></div></span> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/224/iraq-quotheres-the-dawn-dr-malariaquot-by-edouard-">IRAQ: "Here's the dawn, Dr Malaria" by Edouard Boubat - 1958 <span>(25)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/224/iraq-quotheres-the-dawn-dr-malariaquot-by-edouard-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/46999_465.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=4b8109e598cae409783e580a5e1a342803044b4eeb24bde2715433f05b539b3e" alt="1958: Dr Luigi Mara spent the last four years in a relentless mosquito hunt all across malaria-ridden Kurdistan in Iraq. He managed to win the confidence of the Kurds, and was known among them as "Dr Malaria". For fifteen years, Dr Malaria has led a "nomadic life" himself, going "on his rounds" in Eritrea, India, Switzerland, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, the Sudan and Iraq - first on behalf of the health department of Italy and then as a malariologist of the World Health Organization. In 1954, Iraq, worried that her economic development was threatened by malaria applied to WHO for help. And the most seriously threatened part of the country, Kurdistan, was entrusted to Dr Malaria. Here, Dr Malaria is an honored guest at the wedding of a Bedouin chieftain and the daughter of a Kurd chieftain." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="465" height="300" style="margin-left:-82.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="1958: Dr Luigi Mara spent the last four years in a relentless mosquito hunt all across malaria-ridden Kurdistan in Iraq. He managed to win the confidence of the Kurds, and was known among them as "Dr Malaria". For fifteen years, Dr Malaria has led a "nomadic life" himself, going "on his rounds" in Eritrea, India, Switzerland, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, the Sudan and Iraq - first on behalf of the health department of Italy and then as a malariologist of the World Health Organization. In 1954, Iraq, worried that her economic development was threatened by malaria applied to WHO for help. And the most seriously threatened part of the country, Kurdistan, was entrusted to Dr Malaria. Here, Dr Malaria is an honored guest at the wedding of a Bedouin chieftain and the daughter of a Kurd chieftain." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="465" height="300" style="margin-left:-82.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="1958: Dr Luigi Mara spent the last four years in a relentless mosquito hunt all across malaria-ridden Kurdistan in Iraq. He managed to win the confidence of the Kurds, and was known among them as "Dr Malaria". For fifteen years, Dr Malaria has led a "nomadic life" himself, going "on his rounds" in Eritrea, India, Switzerland, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, the Sudan and Iraq - first on behalf of the health department of Italy and then as a malariologist of the World Health Organization. In 1954, Iraq, worried that her economic development was threatened by malaria applied to WHO for help. And the most seriously threatened part of the country, Kurdistan, was entrusted to Dr Malaria. Here, Dr Malaria is an honored guest at the wedding of a Bedouin chieftain and the daughter of a Kurd chieftain." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="465" height="300" style="margin-left:-82.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1820"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1820/nepal-quotthe-waters-of-sorrow-become-the-river-of">NEPAL: "The waters of sorrow become the river of life" by Eric Schwab - 1957  <span>(21)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1820/nepal-quotthe-waters-of-sorrow-become-the-river-of" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/32512_305.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=ff5c83d78d5f6dcedcbd60cd3a6375d2382cdb4ad585f8ebdd2c7c078d38f1c7" alt="The waters of sorrow become the river of life For generations the people of Nepal have spoken of the River Rapti as "kala-pani" (literally "black water") or the Waters of Sorrow. For the valley of the Rapti, 65 miles long and comprising 600 square miles of potentially fertile land, close to the northern border of India, was fever-ridden, an abode of death, the undisputed territory of the malarial mosquito. With the help of WHO, the government of Nepal cleared malaria from the Rapti Valley and 3,000 families - once landless or scratching a precarious living by terracing the arid hills high above the "malaria line" - settled on their own holdings on 14,000 bighas of land given them by the Government (1 bigha - 1.69 acres). When the scheme was complete 7,000 families had settled. This is Rana Bahadur, son of a farmer (Nara Bahadur Gurung). Rana is fit and well and happy and at the time this picture was taken was celebrating his ninth birthday (In 1956 the malaria spleen rate for children between the ages of 2 and 9 in this areas was 100 per cent. Today it is 25 per cent. The parasite rate for children under one year was 75%; now it is nul. For children between the ages of 2 and 9 the parasite rate has been reduced from 80% to 15-20%)." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="305" height="300" style="margin-left:-2.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The waters of sorrow become the river of life For generations the people of Nepal have spoken of the River Rapti as "kala-pani" (literally "black water") or the Waters of Sorrow. For the valley of the Rapti, 65 miles long and comprising 600 square miles of potentially fertile land, close to the northern border of India, was fever-ridden, an abode of death, the undisputed territory of the malarial mosquito. With the help of WHO, the government of Nepal cleared malaria from the Rapti Valley and 3,000 families - once landless or scratching a precarious living by terracing the arid hills high above the "malaria line" - settled on their own holdings on 14,000 bighas of land given them by the Government (1 bigha - 1.69 acres). When the scheme was complete 7,000 families had settled. This is Rana Bahadur, son of a farmer (Nara Bahadur Gurung). Rana is fit and well and happy and at the time this picture was taken was celebrating his ninth birthday (In 1956 the malaria spleen rate for children between the ages of 2 and 9 in this areas was 100 per cent. Today it is 25 per cent. The parasite rate for children under one year was 75%; now it is nul. For children between the ages of 2 and 9 the parasite rate has been reduced from 80% to 15-20%)." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="305" height="300" style="margin-left:-2.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The waters of sorrow become the river of life For generations the people of Nepal have spoken of the River Rapti as "kala-pani" (literally "black water") or the Waters of Sorrow. For the valley of the Rapti, 65 miles long and comprising 600 square miles of potentially fertile land, close to the northern border of India, was fever-ridden, an abode of death, the undisputed territory of the malarial mosquito. With the help of WHO, the government of Nepal cleared malaria from the Rapti Valley and 3,000 families - once landless or scratching a precarious living by terracing the arid hills high above the "malaria line" - settled on their own holdings on 14,000 bighas of land given them by the Government (1 bigha - 1.69 acres). When the scheme was complete 7,000 families had settled. This is Rana Bahadur, son of a farmer (Nara Bahadur Gurung). Rana is fit and well and happy and at the time this picture was taken was celebrating his ninth birthday (In 1956 the malaria spleen rate for children between the ages of 2 and 9 in this areas was 100 per cent. Today it is 25 per cent. The parasite rate for children under one year was 75%; now it is nul. For children between the ages of 2 and 9 the parasite rate has been reduced from 80% to 15-20%)." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="305" height="300" style="margin-left:-2.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1359"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1359/indonesia-quotmalaria-by-the-seaquot-by-jean-manev">INDONESIA: "Malaria by the sea" by Jean Manevy - 1957 <span>(17)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1359/indonesia-quotmalaria-by-the-seaquot-by-jean-manev" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/32495_306.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=f8943f6a24317f29efcb3b6b41d6ec13b9c2bdc5bc2ef655767ecdd954ed7059" alt="The fishermen of Bandengan bring in their catch, wading in the shall waters of the meres." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="307.02341137124" height="300" style="margin-left:-3.5117056856187px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The fishermen of Bandengan bring in their catch, wading in the shall waters of the meres." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="307.02341137124" height="300" style="margin-left:-3.5117056856187px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The fishermen of Bandengan bring in their catch, wading in the shall waters of the meres." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="307.02341137124" height="300" style="margin-left:-3.5117056856187px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1286"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1286/ethiopia-quotdr-russell-leads-an-epidemiological-i">ETHIOPIA: "Dr Russell leads an epidemiological investigation" by Jean Manevy - 1957 <span>(24)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1286/ethiopia-quotdr-russell-leads-an-epidemiological-i" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/29717_464.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=2264657ec31ee9a68e0319ce357ed021f4600d9d96726083210f8ae5b8a6a14c" alt="Between 1956 and 1958 Dr Russell carried out an epidemiological investigation. His primary task was to discover from which diseases Ethiopians was suffering and dying. The result of his population studies allowed the Ethiopian Government to organize health services on a practical basis. The result of his survey was valuable only if it covered a sufficiently large number of people. A fire is soon going, for the water supplies that are often dangerous (containing intestinal parasites) and must be boiled before use." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="465.55183946488" height="300" style="margin-left:-82.775919732441px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Between 1956 and 1958 Dr Russell carried out an epidemiological investigation. His primary task was to discover from which diseases Ethiopians was suffering and dying. The result of his population studies allowed the Ethiopian Government to organize health services on a practical basis. The result of his survey was valuable only if it covered a sufficiently large number of people. A fire is soon going, for the water supplies that are often dangerous (containing intestinal parasites) and must be boiled before use." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="465.55183946488" height="300" style="margin-left:-82.775919732441px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Between 1956 and 1958 Dr Russell carried out an epidemiological investigation. His primary task was to discover from which diseases Ethiopians was suffering and dying. The result of his population studies allowed the Ethiopian Government to organize health services on a practical basis. The result of his survey was valuable only if it covered a sufficiently large number of people. A fire is soon going, for the water supplies that are often dangerous (containing intestinal parasites) and must be boiled before use." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="465.55183946488" height="300" style="margin-left:-82.775919732441px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1821"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1821/nepal-quotreconnaissance-patrol-in-the-himalayan-f">NEPAL: "Reconnaissance patrol in the Himalayan foothills" by Eric Schwab - 1957 <span>(32)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1821/nepal-quotreconnaissance-patrol-in-the-himalayan-f" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/32541_458.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=d3b248ab5c56347aa9bc4f62ee131c937d31bd8d5d03a123d50a05e2cbac4921" alt="Reconnaissance patrol in the Himalayan foothills Planning of a malaria eradication campaign can, in most countries, be thought of in terms of jeeps, railways and airfreight. In Nepal, the campaign was worked out in terms of porters, runners and four-legged transport: where to employ porters, where mules, assignment of porters' loads, storage to supplies, availability of local labour and weather conditions. As part of his assignment to organize the supply lines for the malaria campaign in the mountains of Nepal, WHO sanitarian Thomas J. MacInnes made a ten-day 165 mile long march from Pokhara to Kathmandu through the mountains of Nepal. During ten days, a World Health photographer went with a WHO sanitarian whose job was to organize the supply lines for the malaria campaign in the mountains of Nepal. The long trek of sanitarian MacInnes from Pokhara to Kathmandu." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="458" height="300" style="margin-left:-79px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Reconnaissance patrol in the Himalayan foothills Planning of a malaria eradication campaign can, in most countries, be thought of in terms of jeeps, railways and airfreight. In Nepal, the campaign was worked out in terms of porters, runners and four-legged transport: where to employ porters, where mules, assignment of porters' loads, storage to supplies, availability of local labour and weather conditions. As part of his assignment to organize the supply lines for the malaria campaign in the mountains of Nepal, WHO sanitarian Thomas J. MacInnes made a ten-day 165 mile long march from Pokhara to Kathmandu through the mountains of Nepal. During ten days, a World Health photographer went with a WHO sanitarian whose job was to organize the supply lines for the malaria campaign in the mountains of Nepal. The long trek of sanitarian MacInnes from Pokhara to Kathmandu." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="458" height="300" style="margin-left:-79px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Reconnaissance patrol in the Himalayan foothills Planning of a malaria eradication campaign can, in most countries, be thought of in terms of jeeps, railways and airfreight. In Nepal, the campaign was worked out in terms of porters, runners and four-legged transport: where to employ porters, where mules, assignment of porters' loads, storage to supplies, availability of local labour and weather conditions. As part of his assignment to organize the supply lines for the malaria campaign in the mountains of Nepal, WHO sanitarian Thomas J. MacInnes made a ten-day 165 mile long march from Pokhara to Kathmandu through the mountains of Nepal. During ten days, a World Health photographer went with a WHO sanitarian whose job was to organize the supply lines for the malaria campaign in the mountains of Nepal. The long trek of sanitarian MacInnes from Pokhara to Kathmandu." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="458" height="300" style="margin-left:-79px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_225"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div>  <span class="info_desc"><div class="teaserText hoverFileInfo"><p>The Seishi Ryogo En, founded in 1937, is Japan's first "hospital, school and home" community centre for the rehabilitation of crippled children.</p></div></span> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/225/japan-quotthe-first-step-forwardquot-by-dominique-">JAPAN: "The first step forward" by Dominique Darbois - 1956 <span>(19)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/225/japan-quotthe-first-step-forwardquot-by-dominique-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/42064_461.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=0b01d3db9d621143bbfb02f2cd0cbc31135d334cfb5f1858f4d2112581e2724b" alt="Shigenori Kameyama was little more than a year old when the polio virus found him in the hamlet of Tsukuni on Kyushu Island, some 1,800 kms from Tokyo. He became completely paralysed: he could not lift a finger nor wiggle a toe. Undaunted his parents - a humble family of limited means - decided to move to Tokyo where, several years later, Shigenori was admitted to the Seishi Ryogo En, a hospital, school and home for crippled children founded in 1937 by Dr Kenji Takagi, pioneer of rehabilitation work in Japan. There he began the long battle to regain part use of his limbs - just one of many Japanese children who have been helped indirectly by WHO and UNICEF, by the provision of fellowships for Japanese health personnel to go abroad and study the latest methods of rehabilitation. After two years of patient endeavour by Shigenori and his nurses, he manages to make one uncertain step forward on crutches. Then comes triumph! Shigenori manages to hobble forward a distance of five feet." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="461" style="margin-top:-80.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Shigenori Kameyama was little more than a year old when the polio virus found him in the hamlet of Tsukuni on Kyushu Island, some 1,800 kms from Tokyo. He became completely paralysed: he could not lift a finger nor wiggle a toe. Undaunted his parents - a humble family of limited means - decided to move to Tokyo where, several years later, Shigenori was admitted to the Seishi Ryogo En, a hospital, school and home for crippled children founded in 1937 by Dr Kenji Takagi, pioneer of rehabilitation work in Japan. There he began the long battle to regain part use of his limbs - just one of many Japanese children who have been helped indirectly by WHO and UNICEF, by the provision of fellowships for Japanese health personnel to go abroad and study the latest methods of rehabilitation. After two years of patient endeavour by Shigenori and his nurses, he manages to make one uncertain step forward on crutches. Then comes triumph! Shigenori manages to hobble forward a distance of five feet." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="461" style="margin-top:-80.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Shigenori Kameyama was little more than a year old when the polio virus found him in the hamlet of Tsukuni on Kyushu Island, some 1,800 kms from Tokyo. He became completely paralysed: he could not lift a finger nor wiggle a toe. Undaunted his parents - a humble family of limited means - decided to move to Tokyo where, several years later, Shigenori was admitted to the Seishi Ryogo En, a hospital, school and home for crippled children founded in 1937 by Dr Kenji Takagi, pioneer of rehabilitation work in Japan. There he began the long battle to regain part use of his limbs - just one of many Japanese children who have been helped indirectly by WHO and UNICEF, by the provision of fellowships for Japanese health personnel to go abroad and study the latest methods of rehabilitation. After two years of patient endeavour by Shigenori and his nurses, he manages to make one uncertain step forward on crutches. Then comes triumph! Shigenori manages to hobble forward a distance of five feet." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="461" style="margin-top:-80.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1382"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1382/finland-quotthe-story-of-silja-laaksonenquot-by-er">FINLAND: "The story of Silja Laaksonen" by Eric Schwab - 1953 <span>(30)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1382/finland-quotthe-story-of-silja-laaksonenquot-by-er" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/28041_319.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=43e2fb6690e8cf4a36fa06f77c4f12aa5db3df747fb9dec358a5302bbadd23e5" alt="Silja Laaksonen was trained in Helsinki and in Kuopio and at first worked in a hospital in Kuopio, but didn't like the restrictions and routine of hospital so she went north to Lapland and the greater freedom of public health work. Ski-ing is not a sport for Silja but a means of transport from one isolated farmhouse to another in her district." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="319" style="margin-top:-9.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Silja Laaksonen was trained in Helsinki and in Kuopio and at first worked in a hospital in Kuopio, but didn't like the restrictions and routine of hospital so she went north to Lapland and the greater freedom of public health work. Ski-ing is not a sport for Silja but a means of transport from one isolated farmhouse to another in her district." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="319" style="margin-top:-9.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Silja Laaksonen was trained in Helsinki and in Kuopio and at first worked in a hospital in Kuopio, but didn't like the restrictions and routine of hospital so she went north to Lapland and the greater freedom of public health work. Ski-ing is not a sport for Silja but a means of transport from one isolated farmhouse to another in her district." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="319" style="margin-top:-9.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1656"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1656/denmark-quotdanish-schoolsquot-by-eric-schwab-1953">DENMARK: "Danish schools" by Eric Schwab - 1953 <span>(48)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1656/denmark-quotdanish-schoolsquot-by-eric-schwab-1953" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/44130_303.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=5af8f1389393a512140ea0b8a1dfd4779e911858e9b85b14be4e9fbab411a434" alt="In the spring of 1953, a travelling study group, organized by the World health Organization conjunction with the Danish Government, paid a ten-day visit to schools for both normal and handicapped children in and around Copenhagen. The group consisted of school health specialists from 27 different countries, including 7 from the Eastern Mediterranean Region. On their return they reported on what they had seen to the educational authorities of their own countries and made recommendations where necessary and practicable. Lissi, a Danish school girl child, gives herself treatment with an ear vibrator in the school for hard hearing children, Copenhagen. The machine, which vibrates the tympanic membrane, is used for two minutes in each ear over a period of ten days. All necessary treatment in this school is free as are all the health services of the Danish schools. In the school for hard of hearing children half the children wear hearing aids provided free. Caption was not provided by the photographer. Therefore, a generic caption has been applied to this image." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="In the spring of 1953, a travelling study group, organized by the World health Organization conjunction with the Danish Government, paid a ten-day visit to schools for both normal and handicapped children in and around Copenhagen. The group consisted of school health specialists from 27 different countries, including 7 from the Eastern Mediterranean Region. On their return they reported on what they had seen to the educational authorities of their own countries and made recommendations where necessary and practicable. Lissi, a Danish school girl child, gives herself treatment with an ear vibrator in the school for hard hearing children, Copenhagen. The machine, which vibrates the tympanic membrane, is used for two minutes in each ear over a period of ten days. All necessary treatment in this school is free as are all the health services of the Danish schools. In the school for hard of hearing children half the children wear hearing aids provided free. Caption was not provided by the photographer. Therefore, a generic caption has been applied to this image." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="In the spring of 1953, a travelling study group, organized by the World health Organization conjunction with the Danish Government, paid a ten-day visit to schools for both normal and handicapped children in and around Copenhagen. The group consisted of school health specialists from 27 different countries, including 7 from the Eastern Mediterranean Region. On their return they reported on what they had seen to the educational authorities of their own countries and made recommendations where necessary and practicable. Lissi, a Danish school girl child, gives herself treatment with an ear vibrator in the school for hard hearing children, Copenhagen. The machine, which vibrates the tympanic membrane, is used for two minutes in each ear over a period of ten days. All necessary treatment in this school is free as are all the health services of the Danish schools. In the school for hard of hearing children half the children wear hearing aids provided free. Caption was not provided by the photographer. Therefore, a generic caption has been applied to this image." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1330"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1330/el-salvador-quota-move-in-the-right-directionquot-">EL SALVADOR: "A move in the right direction" - 1952 <span>(14)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1330/el-salvador-quota-move-in-the-right-directionquot-" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/21143_324.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=ba31105785f036f553c029dd9fbb78ab0d7b0ec8c260384e063781b0ba6e94e8" alt="A move in the right direction - Rural development is an established fact in El Salvador. In November 1952 the Government, through its Institute of Rural Colonization, had already begun to move families into 250 specially-designed brick homes at its Sitio del Nino project. Under the direction of a planning group made up of government representatives and experts from various U.N. agencies, steps were taken to improve the economy of the region and the living conditions of the people. This is the story of one family and the move from thatched hut to a new home. Cleotilde Quijano draws water from a sealed sanitary pump at her new Rural Colonization home." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="324" style="margin-top:-12px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="A move in the right direction - Rural development is an established fact in El Salvador. In November 1952 the Government, through its Institute of Rural Colonization, had already begun to move families into 250 specially-designed brick homes at its Sitio del Nino project. Under the direction of a planning group made up of government representatives and experts from various U.N. agencies, steps were taken to improve the economy of the region and the living conditions of the people. This is the story of one family and the move from thatched hut to a new home. Cleotilde Quijano draws water from a sealed sanitary pump at her new Rural Colonization home." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="324" style="margin-top:-12px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="A move in the right direction - Rural development is an established fact in El Salvador. In November 1952 the Government, through its Institute of Rural Colonization, had already begun to move families into 250 specially-designed brick homes at its Sitio del Nino project. Under the direction of a planning group made up of government representatives and experts from various U.N. agencies, steps were taken to improve the economy of the region and the living conditions of the people. This is the story of one family and the move from thatched hut to a new home. Cleotilde Quijano draws water from a sealed sanitary pump at her new Rural Colonization home." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="324" style="margin-top:-12px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1561"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1561/pakistan-quotthe-story-of-tabindaquot-1951">PAKISTAN: "The story of Tabinda" - 1951 <span>(15)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1561/pakistan-quotthe-story-of-tabindaquot-1951" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/24414_428.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=4e96f2281fa0ac18caf3c68253072847dbba5f2e31568decc6d8e94a5c32bb28" alt="Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. It includes the promotion of health, the prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Tabinda story. She attends her first midwifery class at the training centre at Lahore, where a World Health Organization Maternal and Child Health Demonstration team has been helping the Pakistan Government to train desperately needed health workers." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="428" height="300" style="margin-left:-64px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. It includes the promotion of health, the prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Tabinda story. She attends her first midwifery class at the training centre at Lahore, where a World Health Organization Maternal and Child Health Demonstration team has been helping the Pakistan Government to train desperately needed health workers." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="428" height="300" style="margin-left:-64px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. It includes the promotion of health, the prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Tabinda story. She attends her first midwifery class at the training centre at Lahore, where a World Health Organization Maternal and Child Health Demonstration team has been helping the Pakistan Government to train desperately needed health workers." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="428" height="300" style="margin-left:-64px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1343"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1343/india-quotit-happened-in-our-villagequot-1950">INDIA: "It happened in our village" - 1950 <span>(25)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1343/india-quotit-happened-in-our-villagequot-1950" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/32996_303.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=d41e75697e6c4754bbbecb58669a42fe8362f86c542248d9c3fd4080e35dd328" alt=""It happened in our village", a 27-minute documentary film, was produced by the Government of India Films Division with the assistance of WHO. The film was produced by Ezra Mir, Chief Producer of the Government Film Unit and directed by Mohan Wadhwani. The film tells the story of village tensions, suspicions and mistrust when the illiterate dai (the indigenous midwife of India) allows her daughter to go away for a two-year course of training as an auxiliary nurse midwife while she herself takes a short Government of India/WHO dai training course which will fit her to undertake any normal delivery with safety to mother and child and teach her when medical aid should be called in. At the King Georges Hospital at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Sushamma begins the second part of her two-year training : midwifery. "She is learning all about how a baby is born and what she can do to make the delivery safe for mother and baby". In classrooms attached to the Hospital the auxiliary nurse midwife students work long and hard. Then comes practical work in the maternity wards. "Before and after work cleanliness is most important - The mothers have to be taught to take all the precautions - and the students must set an example - "" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt=""It happened in our village", a 27-minute documentary film, was produced by the Government of India Films Division with the assistance of WHO. The film was produced by Ezra Mir, Chief Producer of the Government Film Unit and directed by Mohan Wadhwani. The film tells the story of village tensions, suspicions and mistrust when the illiterate dai (the indigenous midwife of India) allows her daughter to go away for a two-year course of training as an auxiliary nurse midwife while she herself takes a short Government of India/WHO dai training course which will fit her to undertake any normal delivery with safety to mother and child and teach her when medical aid should be called in. At the King Georges Hospital at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Sushamma begins the second part of her two-year training : midwifery. "She is learning all about how a baby is born and what she can do to make the delivery safe for mother and baby". In classrooms attached to the Hospital the auxiliary nurse midwife students work long and hard. Then comes practical work in the maternity wards. "Before and after work cleanliness is most important - The mothers have to be taught to take all the precautions - and the students must set an example - "" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt=""It happened in our village", a 27-minute documentary film, was produced by the Government of India Films Division with the assistance of WHO. The film was produced by Ezra Mir, Chief Producer of the Government Film Unit and directed by Mohan Wadhwani. The film tells the story of village tensions, suspicions and mistrust when the illiterate dai (the indigenous midwife of India) allows her daughter to go away for a two-year course of training as an auxiliary nurse midwife while she herself takes a short Government of India/WHO dai training course which will fit her to undertake any normal delivery with safety to mother and child and teach her when medical aid should be called in. At the King Georges Hospital at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Sushamma begins the second part of her two-year training : midwifery. "She is learning all about how a baby is born and what she can do to make the delivery safe for mother and baby". In classrooms attached to the Hospital the auxiliary nurse midwife students work long and hard. Then comes practical work in the maternity wards. "Before and after work cleanliness is most important - The mothers have to be taught to take all the precautions - and the students must set an example - "" extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="303" style="margin-top:-1.5px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_1328"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1328/cameroon-quotagainst-leprosy-in-africaquot-by-pier">CAMEROON: "Against leprosy in Africa" by Pierre A. Pittet - 1950 <span>(30)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/1328/cameroon-quotagainst-leprosy-in-africaquot-by-pier" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/46780_458.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=b430c2727dc077f06b7800ee429a3d0cc2fcf919fb40f2b7b86d58e09394af7a" alt="Against leprosy in Africa - Leprosy is widely prevalent in the countries of West Africa. The Endemic Diseases Service directed by Dr Richet, with headquarters in Bobo-Dioulasso, operates mobile teams that, each in its own area, pursue the triple aim of case-finding, treatment and health education. Technical and material assistance has been made available by WHO and UNICEF. The service has now made a name for itself in all the countries previously belonging to French West and Equatorial Africa, and is now spreading in English-speaking countries also. Adama, a 25-year-old girl of Kassai tribe, has realized that she has contracted leprosy. The examination of a new patient reporting for treatment includes the extraction of nasal mucus where the Hansen germ is usually found. " extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="458" height="300" style="margin-left:-79px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Against leprosy in Africa - Leprosy is widely prevalent in the countries of West Africa. The Endemic Diseases Service directed by Dr Richet, with headquarters in Bobo-Dioulasso, operates mobile teams that, each in its own area, pursue the triple aim of case-finding, treatment and health education. Technical and material assistance has been made available by WHO and UNICEF. The service has now made a name for itself in all the countries previously belonging to French West and Equatorial Africa, and is now spreading in English-speaking countries also. Adama, a 25-year-old girl of Kassai tribe, has realized that she has contracted leprosy. The examination of a new patient reporting for treatment includes the extraction of nasal mucus where the Hansen germ is usually found. " extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="458" height="300" style="margin-left:-79px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Against leprosy in Africa - Leprosy is widely prevalent in the countries of West Africa. The Endemic Diseases Service directed by Dr Richet, with headquarters in Bobo-Dioulasso, operates mobile teams that, each in its own area, pursue the triple aim of case-finding, treatment and health education. Technical and material assistance has been made available by WHO and UNICEF. The service has now made a name for itself in all the countries previously belonging to French West and Equatorial Africa, and is now spreading in English-speaking countries also. Adama, a 25-year-old girl of Kassai tribe, has realized that she has contracted leprosy. The examination of a new patient reporting for treatment includes the extraction of nasal mucus where the Hansen germ is usually found. " extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="458" height="300" style="margin-left:-79px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_269"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div>  <span class="info_desc"><div class="teaserText hoverFileInfo"><p>The disease profile of the world is rapidly evolving. This is especially true in low and middle income countries where chronic diseases are creating a double burden on top of infectious diseases. As these stories will show, even least developed countries are not immune to the growing epidemics of heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases. https://www.who.int/ncdnet/photo_stories/en/</p></div></span> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/269/brazil-face-to-face-with-chronic-disease-2004">BRAZIL: Face to face with chronic disease - 2004 <span>(3)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/269/brazil-face-to-face-with-chronic-disease-2004" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/52769_300.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=f33a5a4928dec109a6462046ad28596bd6b850b8f0967cd08d3eacbd0c8b3415" alt="The favela where Roberto Severino Campos (not pictured), 52, lives with his family. This particular feature presents Roberto from Brazil. He lives in the outskirts of São Paulo with his 7 children and 16 grandchildren. He never paid attention to his high blood pressure, nor to his drinking and smoking habits. After a first stroke 6 years ago, at 46, he was paralyzed in the legs. Then 4 years later and 2 consecutive strokes, he lost his ability to speak. Now he depends entirely on his family to survive. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The favela where Roberto Severino Campos (not pictured), 52, lives with his family. This particular feature presents Roberto from Brazil. He lives in the outskirts of São Paulo with his 7 children and 16 grandchildren. He never paid attention to his high blood pressure, nor to his drinking and smoking habits. After a first stroke 6 years ago, at 46, he was paralyzed in the legs. Then 4 years later and 2 consecutive strokes, he lost his ability to speak. Now he depends entirely on his family to survive. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="The favela where Roberto Severino Campos (not pictured), 52, lives with his family. This particular feature presents Roberto from Brazil. He lives in the outskirts of São Paulo with his 7 children and 16 grandchildren. He never paid attention to his high blood pressure, nor to his drinking and smoking habits. After a first stroke 6 years ago, at 46, he was paralyzed in the legs. Then 4 years later and 2 consecutive strokes, he lost his ability to speak. Now he depends entirely on his family to survive. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_272"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div>  <span class="info_desc"><div class="teaserText hoverFileInfo"><p>The disease profile of the world is rapidly evolving. This is especially true in low and middle income countries where chronic diseases are creating a double burden on top of infectious diseases. As these stories will show, even least developed countries are not immune to the growing epidemics of heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases. https://www.who.int/ncdnet/photo_stories/en/</p></div></span> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/272/united-republic-of-tanzania-face-to-face-with-chro">UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA: Face to face with chronic disease - 2004 to 2005 <span>(7)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/272/united-republic-of-tanzania-face-to-face-with-chro" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/52869_300.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=262b124b468a33487b84d2ed9c204291603649f0d4ad01fb676b90199412d4b2" alt="This particular feature presents Mary Mtenga, 36, who suffers from diabetes. Mary holds an old family photo. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="This particular feature presents Mary Mtenga, 36, who suffers from diabetes. Mary holds an old family photo. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="This particular feature presents Mary Mtenga, 36, who suffers from diabetes. Mary holds an old family photo. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="300" style="" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="group_274"> <label class="fadeTitle hideMe"></label> <div class="titleOverlay"></div>  <span class="info_desc"><div class="teaserText hoverFileInfo"><p>The disease profile of the world is rapidly evolving. This is especially true in low and middle income countries where chronic diseases are creating a double burden on top of infectious diseases. As these stories will show, even least developed countries are not immune to the growing epidemics of heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases. https://www.who.int/ncdnet/photo_stories/en/</p></div></span> <div class="title"> <span class="hideTitle"> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/274/india-face-to-face-with-chronic-disease-2005">INDIA: Face to face with chronic disease - 2005 <span>(1)</span></a> </span> </div> <div class="blockImage"> <div> <a href="https://photos.hq.who.int/galleries/274/india-face-to-face-with-chronic-disease-2005" style="height:200;"> <span class="fauxcrop" style="width:300px;height:300px;"><img src="https://lrmm-who-media.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/52844_303.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6HVAQWUCINR6VDUA%2F20250226%2Feu-west-3%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250226T001410Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=1200&X-Amz-Signature=d719b996e2ec27fae100c2665137334d7d45321410e54cd795dba5caeaed2ce6" alt="Two portraits hang on a wall next to a vision test device in Aravind Eye Hospital. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304.01337792642" style="margin-top:-2.0066889632107px;" class="visible" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Two portraits hang on a wall next to a vision test device in Aravind Eye Hospital. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304.01337792642" style="margin-top:-2.0066889632107px;" class="alternative hidden" /><img src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=blank_image.gif" alt="Two portraits hang on a wall next to a vision test device in Aravind Eye Hospital. This series of photos showcases stories of people from different countries living with chronic diseases and common underlying risks. In a world where more and more people are dying as a result of chronic diseases, and many more millions are disabled, these stories aim to demonstrate the strong and personal impact of chronic diseases on individuals and their families." extraCss="" addHiddenImage="1" width="300" height="304.01337792642" style="margin-top:-2.0066889632107px;" /></span> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="moreResults"> <div class="assetDets"> <div id="waitForMore"> <div> <img class="top" src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=loadmore.png" /> <img class="middle" src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=loadmore.png" /> <img class="bottom" src="https://photos.hq.who.int/media/image?src=loadmore.png" /> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="sidepanelcontent"> <div class="headingTitle"></div> <ul class="content"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <script> groupCategories.searchParams = ""; groupCategories.loadMoreURI = "galleries/groups/loadmore/40/"; groupCategories.pgURLBase = "https://photos.hq.who.int/category/40"; 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