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What is HIV? It’s a virus that affects your immune system. When the immune system becomes severely compromised, the body is susceptible to serious and often deadly infections.
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | HIV/AIDS patient with severe skin disease.
Visit MSF’s World AIDS Day 2009 website for more information, and video interviews with MSF staff and patients living with HIV in South Africa.
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | Knife-sharpening stone rigged to a bicycle. Low carbon footprint.
Again — Malaria kills. It is preventable and treatable but millions die from it every year. Mostly children. The reasons are political and social and economic and an adequate discussion is beyond the scope of this pseudo-blog. MSF has been active in implementing highly effective Artemisinin Combined Therapy into its projects worldwide. Here in my health center we are currently diagnosing between 50 and 100 cases a day. Again, the world needs a malaria vaccine.
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | Children ill with severe malaria (Plasmodium Falciparum species).
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | Saturday morning vaccinations.
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | Fashion Week Uganda, Fall 2009.
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | The elusive northern Ugandan 6-legged cow.
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | Music for airports, and scene from the daily morning run.
It’s rainy season and this means Malaria. Malaria annually kills millions worldwide, but nowhere is affected more severely than Sub-Saharan Africa. The predominant species here, Plasmodium Falciparum, is unfortunately also the deadliest. We need a malaria vaccine – desperately.
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | Ugandan Superboy in the Rain.
During the conflict, every night thousands of children from surrounding villages would run from as far as ten miles away to sleep on the floor in the school below. Here they were safe from night time abduction by the LRA. The next day the kids would run back to their home village to be with their family and go to their own school. And then run back to safety of the town again that very night. Really. Miles. For years. They were known as the “Night Commuters”. These kids are incredible.
Photo: Eamonn Vitt | Kitgum Public School, Kitgum Town.
2009 © Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
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