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Highlights 2009
Highlights
Highlights 2009 In July we invited readers to submit photographs for Highlights 2009. We were delighted with the range of entries that explored, for example, child poverty, congenital disease, and the diverse work of physicians in developing
countries. Lancet editors selected four photographs for publication; we feel that these beautiful images capture different aspects of international health in a thoughtprovoking way. We look forward to Highlights 2010.
For the call for submissions see Comment Lancet 2009; 374: 102
The writing on the wall Giovanni Carmignani, Nicola Mumoli This photograph, taken during a trip we made to Uganda in solidarity with the non-profit organisation Bhalobasa, shows messages painted on the walls of a school. Uganda’s ABC (abstain, be faithful, use condoms) approach to HIV/AIDS began in the late 1980s. Sexual abstinence is promoted in schools as a way to prevent HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Radiotherapy for the chilly Himalayan winds Laxmi Vilas Ghimire This was my window at a medical school hostel in Kathmandu, Nepal. During the winter without a heating system, I repaired the window with old radiographs and CT scan films to stop the bitter Himalayan wind. Only in my last year at medical school was the window finally repaired, which kept me warm but tarnished the beauty and popularity of my window.
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There is always some light Paolo M Suter A woman working in a flour mill in Asmara, Eritrea, catches a sunbeam and rests for a moment from hard physical work. In many countries, people work in environments that put them at risk of occupational asthma and lung disease. For me, the sunbeams falling through a hole in the roof represent hope for a healthier future for female labour forces globally.
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The face of leprosy Lawrence Adrian, Barbara Adrian A patient with leprosy weaving. This man lives in an isolation ward of a rural hospital in the Kagera region of northwestern Tanzania, together with other patients who have leprosy or endstage HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Like other neglected tropical diseases, leprosy is easy to prevent and treat; these diseases are linked by one common vector, poverty.
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Highlights 2009 In July we invited readers to submit photographs for Highlights 2009. We were delighted with the range of entries that explored, for example, child poverty, congenital disease, and the diverse work of physicians in developing
countries. Lancet editors selected four photographs for publication; we feel that these beautiful images capture different aspects of international health in a thoughtprovoking way. We look forward to Highlights 2010.
For the call for submissions see Comment Lancet 2009; 374: 102
The writing on the wall Giovanni Carmignani, Nicola Mumoli This photograph, taken during a trip we made to Uganda in solidarity with the non-profit organisation Bhalobasa, shows messages painted on the walls of a school. Uganda’s ABC (abstain, be faithful, use condoms) approach to HIV/AIDS began in the late 1980s. Sexual abstinence is promoted in schools as a way to prevent HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.
www.thelancet.com Vol 374 December 19/26, 2009
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Radiotherapy for the chilly Himalayan winds Laxmi Vilas Ghimire This was my window at a medical school hostel in Kathmandu, Nepal. During the winter without a heating system, I repaired the window with old radiographs and CT scan films to stop the bitter Himalayan wind. Only in my last year at medical school was the window finally repaired, which kept me warm but tarnished the beauty and popularity of my window.
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There is always some light Paolo M Suter A woman working in a flour mill in Asmara, Eritrea, catches a sunbeam and rests for a moment from hard physical work. In many countries, people work in environments that put them at risk of occupational asthma and lung disease. For me, the sunbeams falling through a hole in the roof represent hope for a healthier future for female labour forces globally.
www.thelancet.com Vol 374 December 19/26, 2009
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The face of leprosy Lawrence Adrian, Barbara Adrian A patient with leprosy weaving. This man lives in an isolation ward of a rural hospital in the Kagera region of northwestern Tanzania, together with other patients who have leprosy or endstage HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Like other neglected tropical diseases, leprosy is easy to prevent and treat; these diseases are linked by one common vector, poverty.
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