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  • Sekou Minkailou, (centre) chief of Matam district in Conakry, worked closely with the team from WHO to convince his people to participate in the Ebola vaccine trial. In Matam district, 10 people, including a doctor, had already died during the outbreak and people were frightened of this new disease that they had never seen before in their country.<br />
“People were so scared, they refused to follow the advice from the government and health workers. They didn’t even want the Red Cross to be involved. They hid the bodies of people who died from Ebola because there was such horrible stigma attached to the family once it was touched by Ebola.”<br />
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Minkailou and his colleagues in the district office were often the first people to have contact with families when a new Ebola case was announced. “We feel really happy, so relieved that this vaccine protects us,” he said.
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  • While Dr Chan was Director General of the World Health Organization, she visited some of the communities in Conakry, Guinea that were most heavily affected by Ebola. <br />
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Dr Chan spoke with people who took part in the Ebola trial in the Coronthie neighbourhood of Conakry. Dr Chan thanked them for their contribution to proving the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine.
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  • While Dr Chan was Director General of the World Health Organization, she visited some of the communities in Conakry, Guinea that were most heavily affected by Ebola. <br />
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Dr Chan spoke with people who took part in the Ebola trial in the Coronthie neighbourhood of Conakry. Dr Chan thanked them for their contribution to proving the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine.
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  • Director General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan spoke to media in Conakry Guinea, flanked by Minister of Health Dr. Abdourahmane Diallo.
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  • While Dr Chan was Director General of the World Health Organization, she visited some of the communities in Conakry, Guinea that were most heavily affected by Ebola. <br />
<br />
Dr Chan spoke with people who took part in the Ebola trial in the Coronthie neighbourhood of Conakry. Dr Chan thanked them for their contribution to proving the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine.
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  • While Dr Chan was Director General of the World Health Organization, she visited some of the communities in Conakry, Guinea that were most heavily affected by Ebola. <br />
<br />
Dr Chan spoke with people who took part in the Ebola trial in the Coronthie neighbourhood of Conakry. Dr Chan thanked them for their contribution to proving the efficacy of the Ebola vaccine.
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  • A box with child-sized body bags at the Nongo Ebola Treatment Centre, Conakry, Guinea. <br />
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At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
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Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
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She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
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Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
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  • At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
<br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
<br />
She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
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  • Students skipping in the playground of a Fairtrade-supported school in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
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  • Students skipping in the playground of a Fairtrade-supported school in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
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  • The bonnet of a vehicle of the World Health Organisation during the clinical trials for ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea.
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  • Students skipping in the playground of a Fairtrade-supported school in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
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  • Students drink from a water system in the playground of a Fairtrade-supported school in Rapar district, Gujarat, India. The water system was also supported by Fairtrade premium.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
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  • Bharnabem Charda, daughter of a Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer helps irrigate a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Young women hold hands during a team-building exercise in a health training centre, Pondicherry.
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  • Ma Joaquina García Molina has worked for 11 years in the little clinic of the village of Estanzuelas, here she is doing an inventory of the medicines. Medical care in the village is paid for by the fairtrade premium at CABRIPEL. About 300 people benefit from this service, everyone in the village and people come from other communities too. "People come with injuries and illnesses and we treat them all" says Ma "I've done several training courses in first aid and in primary health care". Cooperativa Agropecuaria Brisas del Pelón Ltda, CABRIPEL, is a certified organic and Fairtrade coffee-producing cooperative with 50 members based in Estanzuelas, Marcala, La Paz, Honduras.
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  • The World Health Organisation is running phase III clinical trials for ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea. The technique being used is "ring vaccination" which was used in the 1970s to eliminate smallpox.
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  • Fodeba Diakite took part in the trial of the Ebola vaccine in 2015.
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  • M'Mah Sylla, the younger, part of the Sylla household, took part in the WHO-led Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • Aboubacar Sylla, aged 79, lost 4 members of his family in the Ebola outbreak of 2014-15. <br />
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His daughter M’Mah was one of the lucky ones. As soon as she started showing symptoms of the deadly disease, her father made sure that she was taken straight to hospital where early treatment helped save her life. <br />
<br />
Surrounded by multiple generations of his large family at their home in the district of Dixinn Port, Conakry, Sylla tells how the family was shunned by their own community when Ebola struck his family.<br />
<br />
“Before the Ebola outbreak, everyone talked to one another here. Then suddenly we weren’t even allowed to leave our house,” he said.<br />
<br />
People stopped using the well in the open area in front of their home for fear of contamination and the children were forbidden to step out past the boundary of their front courtyard where they were used to playing.<br />
<br />
M’Mah was not living in the family house when she got sick, but her brother Aboubacar was the one who went to her house where she was living with her husband and took her to the Ebola treatment centre in Nongo. <br />
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“Everyone was so scared of Ebola but I couldn’t just abandon my sister. She would have died,” he said, telling how his decision to ride in the ambulance with her caused division within the family.<br />
Since then, even though he never got sick, Aboubacar has suffered stigma from his contact with Ebola and has found it difficult to get work anymore. <br />
<br />
As soon as M’Mah arrived at the Ebola treatment centre, the disease surveillance system alerted the vaccine trial team of this new case. The team sent two local social mobilizers, trained specifically by WHO for this delicate role, to visit the family and to ask if they would agree to participate in a research trial to help develop a vaccine against Ebola. <br />
The Guinea vaccine trial, led by WHO, used a method called ring vaccination. This method, used to eradicate smallpox, aims to vaccinate a “ring” of all the people who had close contact with the pe
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  • Yarie Sylla, at home in her grandfather's house, took part in the WHO-led Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • Aboubacar Mafoudia Sylla, took his sister to hospital when she became ill with Ebola. He also took part in the Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • Aboubacar fils, a one-month-old baby born in a household affected by Ebola. The family took part in the Ebola vaccine trial.
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  • A painted wall in the street in Conakry
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  • Mariam Camara and her one-month-old son Aboubacar fils. Mariam lived with nearly 70 others in an extended family household with her grandfather Aboubacar Sylla. Most took part in the Ebola vaccine trial.
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  • M'Mah Sylla, the younger, part of the Sylla household, took part in the WHO-led Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
    Guinea_Hawkey_Ebola_WHO_20170503_186.jpg
  • Aboubacar Sylla, aged 79, lost 4 members of his family in the Ebola outbreak of 2014-15. <br />
<br />
His daughter M’Mah was one of the lucky ones. As soon as she started showing symptoms of the deadly disease, her father made sure that she was taken straight to hospital where early treatment helped save her life. <br />
<br />
Surrounded by multiple generations of his large family at their home in the district of Dixinn Port, Conakry, Sylla tells how the family was shunned by their own community when Ebola struck his family.<br />
<br />
“Before the Ebola outbreak, everyone talked to one another here. Then suddenly we weren’t even allowed to leave our house,” he said.<br />
<br />
People stopped using the well in the open area in front of their home for fear of contamination and the children were forbidden to step out past the boundary of their front courtyard where they were used to playing.<br />
<br />
M’Mah was not living in the family house when she got sick, but her brother Aboubacar was the one who went to her house where she was living with her husband and took her to the Ebola treatment centre in Nongo. <br />
<br />
“Everyone was so scared of Ebola but I couldn’t just abandon my sister. She would have died,” he said, telling how his decision to ride in the ambulance with her caused division within the family.<br />
<br />
Since then, even though he never got sick, Aboubacar has suffered stigma from his contact with Ebola and has found it difficult to get work anymore. <br />
<br />
As soon as M’Mah arrived at the Ebola treatment centre, the disease surveillance system alerted the vaccine trial team of this new case. The team sent two local social mobilizers, trained specifically by WHO for this delicate role, to visit the family and to ask if they would agree to participate in a research trial to help develop a vaccine against Ebola. <br />
The Guinea vaccine trial, led by WHO, used a method called ring vaccination. This method, used to eradicate smallpox, aims to vaccinate a “ring” of all the people who had close contact with the p
    Guinea_Hawkey_Ebola_WHO_20170503_123.jpg
  • Fatoumata Binta, with her daughter, also called Fatoumata. First her husband got sick and died from Ebola, then she began showing symptoms, and then, one after the other, their four children all got sick from Ebola. Fatoumata and her children were all discharged from the Ebola treatment centre in Donka in April 2015.
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  • Rouguiatou Soumah, 15, part of the Sylla household that took part in the Ebola vaccine trial in 2015.
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  • A market stall in Chennai selling vegetables
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  • Rosa Arely Gútierrez, 29, coffee producer in the COAQUIL cooperative, Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Rosa's father and brothers migrated to the US looking for employment.
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  • Dr. Sakoba Keita, coordinator of the Guinean Ebola Response spoke to local media during a village meeting on Ebola.
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  • Dr. Sakoba Keita, coordinator of the Guinean Ebola Response spoke to local media during a village meeting on Ebola.
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  • The phase III clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine in Guinea was hampered by difficulty in transport to remote regions.
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  • The phase III clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine in Guinea was hampered by difficulty in transport to remote regions.
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  • rVSV Zebov-GP, the Ebola vaccine that was trialled in Guinea, ready to be administered to a participant in the clinical trial in Guinea.
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  • Karamoko Sonah Camara, head of a WHO Ebola vaccination trial team, prepared pharmaceuticals for the participants of the trial.
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  • A security guard in Guinea wears PPE and holds a thermo flash, a non-contact thermometer for testing at a road block. High temperature is the first major sign of Ebola infection, anyone with a temperature of 37 degrees celsius or above was stopped immediately for further testing and isolation to stop the spread of infections.
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  • A young woman in the village of Katongourou, western Guinea, an area heavily affected by Ebola. Many people in the village were participants in the WHO Ebola vaccine trial.
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  • Mamadouba Conté processed blood samples in the Ebola lab at Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea as part of the Ebola vaccine clinical trials.
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  • Hadja Kakoro Sogbe and Halimatu Diallo, members of team nine of the WHO Ebola vaccine trials in Guinea, went through the extensive consent procedure with a participant in the Ebola vaccine trial. They wore protective clothing as the participants were all direct contacts of verified cases of Ebola.
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  • Simona Choc in her corn field. World Renew is beginning to work in Concepción Actelá, through its Guatemalan partner ADIP.
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  • Q'eqchi girls playing football in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. Under Informed Consent rules, the parents of these children would have to be tracked down to give their consent for this photo to be taken or used.
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  • A market stall in Chennai selling vegetables
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  • Rosa Arely Gútierrez, 29, coffee producer in the COAQUIL cooperative, Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Rosa's father and brothers migrated to the US looking for employment.
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  • Allasane Coumbassa, at the Conakry City Morgue. The morgue dealt with many Ebola deaths, Ousmane complained of inadequate protective measures, clothing or waste management to deal with the Ebola .
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  • Fatoumata Conte, logisitics specialist for the WHO during the Ebola vaccine clinical trial in Conakry, Guinea.
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  • A young man in Bonfe village, the first village in Guinea to take part in the Ebola vaccine trials that begin in March 2015.
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  • Mohamed Soumah, 27, the first person to be vaccinated in the Ebola vaccine trial. "It wasn't easy, I can't say I wasn't afraid, I was afraid. People in the village were saying that the injection was to kill me. I was the first one to be injected, the very first, here in my village on March 23. 44 people were vaccinated. I had fever after the vaccination, it worried me a bit, but they warned me that would happen and it didn't last long. I've been monitored for three months and I've had no problems. The last follow up, 84 days after the vaccination, was all clear".
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  • Young men in Bonfe village, the first village in Guinea to take part in the Ebola vaccine trials that began in March 2015.
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  • A security guard in Guinea wears PPE and holds a thermo flash, a non-contact thermometer for testing at a road block. High temperature is the first major sign of Ebola infection, anyone with a temperature of 37 degrees celsius or above was stopped immediately for further testing and isolation to stop the spread of infections.
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  • The drill for destroying the Ebola virus where medical staff come in contact with confirmed cases is strict routine, one small mistake and the infection can be passed on. Staff in PPE, are often close to being overcome by the heat and dehydration, and sometimes need to be shouted instructions like "raise your head up" as each part of the drill is gone through, a series of specific movements as they are sprayed with a bleach solution and each part of the protective clothing is peeled off in the right order and in the right direction, and put straight in the incineration bucket, even the ground where they stand is considered contaminated and has to be covered in bleach. Eventually, a very grateful and completely sweat-sodden worker emerges from inside.
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  • A poster from the Ebola ça Suffit campaign against Ebola in Guinea
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  • Team nine of the WHO Ebola vaccine trial at work in Guinea.
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  • Nene Aminata Diallo (l) and Gamou Saiman Gaston (r), carefully go through the consent process with a participant in the Ebola vaccine trial.
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  • rVSV Zebov-GP, the Ebola vaccine that was trialled in Guinea, ready to be administered to a participant in the clinical trial in Guinea.
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  • Billo Mamadou Diallo, Karamoko Sonah Camara, Alain Mukendi, Jean Francoi Tolno and Hawa Madi, part of Team Nine of the WHO Ebola vaccine trial staff, at work in Katongourou, Guinea .
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  • A doctor wore PPE in the phase III clinical trials for Ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea. The technique used was "ring vaccination" which was used in the 1970s to eliminate smallpox.
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  • WHO staff prepared pharmaceuticals for participants in the clinical trials of the Ebola vaccine in Guinea.
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  • During the phase III Ebola vaccine trial in Guinea, serum was separated from red blood cells for Ebola tests in Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea.
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  • Foromo Kpakpavogui, Ebola vaccine laboratory technician at Donka Hospital, Conakry, Guinea.
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  • While the Ebola vaccine was trialled it had to be kept at a temperature of minus 60 degrees celsius, these Arktek passive vaccine storage devices use jet fuel to keep the right temperature for up to five days in the field, even being opened several times a day. Here a vaccine core is being inserted into the device.
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  • Fresh fruit for sale in a market in Quiche, Guatemala
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  • rVSV Zebov-GP, the Ebola vaccine being prepared for injection.
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  • Modesta, a young Q'eqchi woman in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
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  • Lucky with her baby.
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • A sign at Pratibha says 'Your safety mean the safety of your family'. The plant is run on international standards for Health and Safety and satisfies the Fairtrade guidelines and conditions. Another sign says "Photography and Videography Prohibited".<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
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  • Ann Ocalo is a mentor to young people through the DREAMS project in Nairobi, giving guidance on sexual rights and reproductive health.
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  • Pastor Francis Nthae of the Salvation Army supports programmes in his parish in Mukur Kwa Njenga on sexual health and reproductive rights, and on gender-based violence.
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  • Lilian Mutheu is a mentor in the Dreams project in Nairobi, Kenya. Here she talks to a group of attentive young people in a school where the programme works. <br />
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DREAMS is an acronym for Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women. The project aims to empower girls and young women between 10 and 24 years around issues including HIV prevention, contraceptive methods, health, education and social economic intervention.<br />
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Lilian, who is mother, is familiar with some of the issues through her own personal experience and provides guidance and support to hundreds of young women and girls in the extensive slum of Makuru Kwa Njenga in Nairobi.
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  • Philip Ocheche is a mentor on the DREAMS project in Nairobi, Kenya.<br />
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DREAMS is an acronym for Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women. The project provides guidance on issues including HIV prevention, contraceptive methods, health, education and social economic intervention.<br />
<br />
Philip is familiar with some of the issues through his own personal experience and provides guidance and support to hundreds of men and women in the slum of Makuru Kwa Njenga.
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  • Lilian Mutheu is a mentor in the Dreams project in Nairobi, Kenya.<br />
<br />
DREAMS is an acronym for Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women. The project aims to empower girls and young women between 10 and 24 years around issues including HIV prevention, contraceptive methods, health, education and social economic intervention.<br />
<br />
Lilian, who is mother, is familiar with some of the issues through her own personal experience and provides guidance and support to hundreds of young women and girls in the extensive slum of Makuru Kwa Njenga in Nairobi.
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • Inside the West Bank, there are dozens of wells, water treatment plants and pumping stations that pump water straight into Israel and the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but leaving inadequate allocations for the Palestinians.<br />
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In the West Bank daily consumption of water per capita for domestic, urban, and industrial use is just 73 litres, but as low as 20 litres in some places. In Israeli towns daily consumption is 242 litres per capita. <br />
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The World Health Organization and other international bodies recommend 100 litres of water per capita per day as the minimum quantity for basic consumption. <br />
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This amount includes, in addition to domestic use, consumption in hospitals, schools, businesses, and other public institutions. Palestinian daily consumption is one-third less than the recommended quantity. <br />
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This inequality reflects a broader policy of discrimination against the Palestinians.
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  • Children do the Surya Namaskar, the Sun Salutation, during an assembly at the Vasudha Vidya Vihar school. The school was built with Fairtrade premium funds in 2009. Over 600 students attend the school, which offers education up to 11th standard, primarily for Fairtrade cotton farmers. <br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
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  • Workers producing clothing at the Pratibha factory.<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
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  • Students at a school supported by Fairtrade premium payments in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
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  • Vijajmuni, a hindu who looks after the local temple, and who supports the Fairtrade cotton farmers in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
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  • Asmitaben carried three water containers to her house. The local water system was supported by Fairtrade premium.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170110_256-2.jpg
  • Mamtuben Papybhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_259.jpg
  • Sarabhai Dydabhai Charda with his wife Shantiben Sarabhai Charda Fairtrade-certified cotton farmers picking cotton in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_046.jpg
  • Mamtuben Papybhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Parbatbhai Amarabhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_386-2.jpg
  • Kantaben Parbatbhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Funds from the Fairtrade Premium pay for a technical team to go from farm to farm providing technical assistance to farmers on how to improve the volume and quality of their harvest, how to reduce their costs and increase their profits, how to eliminate environmentally damaging byproducts.<br />
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Here some of the technical team take part in a health and safety course, which they will then impart in meetings of coop members across the region.
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  • A young girl, Salimata, in Thiokéthian school. Education and health is supported by the Fairtrade premium in the village.
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  • Teddy Sinacai Tomás is the President of the Native Communities of the Central Forests of Peru and also represents the Association of Indigenous Peoples and the Ashaninka people, one of the largest indigenous groups in Peru with 73,000 people. "We came to make clear our indigenous proposals for development, relating to the environment. It is time for us to be more visible, or we will be forgotten, and the other development plans, for oil extraction, mining, logging, roads, will destroy the environment where we live, and that the world depends on for its health".
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  • Bahati Kituli is a mentor on the DREAMS project in Nairobi, Kenya. Here he is with his girlfriend Polin.<br />
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DREAMS is an acronym for Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe. The project provides guidance on issues including HIV prevention, contraceptive methods, health, education and social economic intervention.<br />
<br />
Philip is familiar with some of the issues through his own personal experience and provides guidance and support to hundreds of men and women in the slum of Makuru Kwa Njenga.
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  • Bahati Kituli and Philip Ocheche, mentors on sexual health and reproductive rights, confer before giving a talk to a group in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi.
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  • Philip Ocheche is a mentor on the DREAMS project in Nairobi, Kenya.<br />
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DREAMS is an acronym for Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women. The project provides guidance on issues including HIV prevention, contraceptive methods, health, education and social economic intervention.<br />
<br />
Philip is familiar with some of the issues through his own personal experience and provides guidance and support to hundreds of men and women in the slum of Makuru Kwa Njenga.
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  • Bahati Kituli speaks to an audience in a church in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi, Kenya. Bahati is a mentor in issues around sexual health and reproductive rights, gender-based violence and HIV.<br />
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ACT Alliance member LWR/IMA supports the programme that Bahati works on.
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  • Philip Ocheche is a mentor on the DREAMS project in Nairobi, Kenya.<br />
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DREAMS is an acronym for Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women. The project provides guidance on issues including HIV prevention, contraceptive methods, health, education and social economic intervention.<br />
<br />
Philip is familiar with some of the issues through his own personal experience and provides guidance and support to hundreds of men and women in the slum of Makuru Kwa Njenga.
    Kenya_Hawkey_AP-ACT_20191010_1740.jpg
  • Bahati Kituli speaks to an audience in a church in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi, Kenya. Bahati is a mentor in issues around sexual health and reproductive rights, gender-based violence and HIV.<br />
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ACT Alliance member LWR/IMA supports the programme that Bahati works on.
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