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  • Workers in one of the large tanneries located in Jajmau area of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, are processing leather in chromium baths, or liming, while complying to little, if any, health and safety regulations.
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  • A young man in an illegal tannery inside Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is taking a break from the dark, dusty room where he works smoothing and cutting leather. Labourers use almost no protection against the cancerogenic particles generated by this industrial process. Many are oblivious to health and safety regulations, their rights as employees or the impact of a prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals and particles.
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  • Sonja, a health worker, is compiling some forms at Thembacare HIV+ children's care hospice in Athlone, Cape Town.
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Riswana, 25, (left) is offering Indian chai tea to his disabled son Maheraj, 2 and a half years old, while sitting near her husband Mahfus Ali, 32, (left) a gas survivor, inside their home in Model Ground, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. A few years ago Mahfus Ali and his wife Riswana, 25, lost a child facing similar health problems to those of Maharaj. The boy survived only a few days and was born with severe birth defects. Salya, 4, a girl, is the parents's only healthy child.
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  • Ibrahim Abubakar, 22, a man working in artisanal gold processing and mining, is holding his daughter, Fatima Abubakar, 1 year and 9 months. Ibrahim lost a two-yeal-old daughter Abdelmajid Abubakar, to lead poisoning, when he lived in a contaminated cluster of houses where 8 children died in a two-year spam. Fatima is healthy, as the families living in this heavily contaminated compound joined together and remediated the soil by removing tainted soil and replacing it. Many villagers in Zamfara state now claim to be working in agriculture, and to have nothing to do with gold, mainly because the health crisis that emerged. Given the lucrative option, locals believe that most people in the area are, in some way, involved in the gold business. The contamination is caused by ingestion and breathing of lead particles released in the steps to isolate the gold from other metals. This type of lead is soluble in stomach acid and children under-5 are most affected, as they tend to ingest more through their hands by touching the ground, and are developing symptoms often leading to death or serious disabilities. The treatment with MSF starts when blood lead level (BLL) samples reach 45 micrograms per decilitre. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that a BLL of 5 ?g/dL or above is a cause for concern. The cycle of medicines lasts for 20 days. After that, the child's blood is tested and a new round of treatment is provided. Treatment can last years, as lead is reduced in the blood, but it persists noticeably within the bones, especially if the patients return to the same polluted environment. Remediation of the affected villages, a campaign of awareness, and the introduction of safer mining techniques are pivotal to the long-term solution of a hazardous trend that has already killed over 460 children, and it is bound to grow in size, alimented by the ever-rising price of gold.
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Disabled children are playing on a slide and on a swing during an afternoon at Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. The trust, funded by The Bhopal Medical Appeal, a British-based NGO, offers counselling, education, physiotherapy and love to hundreds of children born from gas-affected parents or fed highly contaminated water since an early age, when the body is more likely to be affected, and to suffer irreparable damage to health and wellbeing.
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  • Mahfus Ali, 32, (right) a gas survivor, is holding the hands of his disabled son Maheraj, 2 and a half years old, while inside their home in Model Ground, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. A few years ago Mahfus Ali and his wife Riswana, 25, lost a child facing similar health problems to those of Maharaj. The boy survived only a few days and was born with severe birth defects. Salya, 4, a girl, is the parents's only healthy child.
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  • Ibrahim Abubakar, 22, a man working in artisanal gold processing and mining, lost his two-yeal-old daughter Abdelmajid Abubakar, to lead poisoning, when he lived in a contaminated cluster of houses where 8 children died in a two-year spam. He has now another daughter, Fatima Abubakar, 1 year and 9 months. She is healthy, as the families living in this heavily contaminated compound joined together and remediated the soil by removing tainted soil and replacing it. Many villagers in Zamfara state now claim to be working in agriculture, and to have nothing to do with gold, mainly because the health crisis that emerged. Given the lucrative option, locals believe that most people in the area are, in some way, involved in the gold business. The contamination is caused by ingestion and breathing of lead particles released in the steps to isolate the gold from other metals. This type of lead is soluble in stomach acid and children under-5 are most affected, as they tend to ingest more through their hands by touching the ground, and are developing symptoms often leading to death or serious disabilities. The treatment with MSF starts when blood lead level (BLL) samples reach 45 micrograms per decilitre. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that a BLL of 5 ?g/dL or above is a cause for concern. The cycle of medicines lasts for 20 days. After that, the child's blood is tested and a new round of treatment is provided. Treatment can last years, as lead is reduced in the blood, but it persists noticeably within the bones, especially if the patients return to the same polluted environment. Remediation of the affected villages, a campaign of awareness, and the introduction of safer mining techniques are pivotal to the long-term solution of a hazardous trend that has already killed over 460 children, and it is bound to grow in size, alimented by the ever-rising price of gold.
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Poonam's older sister Jyoti, 11, is being picked with a needle to extract and check her blood's levels, during a standard health check in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. Jyoti's blood levels and quality resulted devoid of any problem.
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • Alan Johnson, the UK Minister of Health, is being interviewed in his office in Whitehall, London, England, on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. ** Italy Out **
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  • The ExPERT Centre building, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Computer screen regulating the criteria for the simulation and monitoring the patient's status in one of the operation rooms at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • The Logo of the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is providing oxygen to one of the 'Patient Simulator' during a heart attack simulation at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is showing the inside body of a 'Patient Simulator' at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is checking the conditions of a 'Patient Simulator' at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • A 'Patient Simulator' is lying in on a bed at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is showing the artificial eye of a 'Patient Simulator' at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' reacts to light and dark, they can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • The ExPERT Centre building, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is showing the urinary artificial part of a 'Patient Simulator' at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is providing oxygen to one of the 'Patient Simulator' at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**...
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  • A 'Patient Simulator' is lying in on a bed at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is providing one of the 'Patient Simulator' with a dose of Propofol, during the initial part of a simulation, at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. Medicines can be administered to the ëPatient Simulatorsí using only water through and a bar code that identify the treatment used. The ëPatientí will react accordingly. The ëSimulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is showing the artificial trachea of a 'Patient Simulator' at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is measuring the pressure of a 'Patient Simulator' at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is defibrillating a 'Patient Simulator' during a cardiac arrest at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' have been built to resist and react to the shock caused by a real defibrillator, they can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • Phil, the OPD (Operating Department Practitioner) is practising a cardiac massage on one of the 'Patient Simulator' during a heart attack simulation at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • A 'Patient Simulator' is lying in on a bed at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**
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  • One of the 'Patient Simulators' is lying on the operation bed at the ExPERT Centre, a new wing of the University of Portsmouth, on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Portsmouth, England. The 'Patient Simulators' can bleed, breathe, drool and even speak, and are being used by students at the state-of-the-art new training centre. They cost 270.000 USD each and are able to simulate all sort of acute conditions, including heart attacks. The 'Patient Simulators' are housed at a $9 million USD centre which opened few weeks ago. Students and professionals from different health-care disciplines simulates conditions to then act and provide the right treatment, while the 'patient' will react accordingly. www.port.ac.uk/expertcentre  **Italy Out**...
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  • Children's toys are laying inside the Chingari Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex Copyright: Alex Masi
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  • Children are being assisted at the Chingari Trust in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, located only minutes away from the former Union Carbide factory. Chingari Trust offers assistance, education, physiotherapy and advice to hundreds of children born from gas-affected parents or being fed highly contaminated water since a very early age, when the body is more likely to be affected and suffer irreparable damage.
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  • Meenakshi, 7, a child born with mental and physical disabilities from a gas-affected mother is kissing her only doll while inside her home in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide industrial complex.
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  • Poonam, 6, is revelling in the heavy monsoon rain in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, central India, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. When the monsoon rain falls every year, it seeps through the buried, hazardous waste of Union Carbide, before proceeding to pollute the area's underground water reservoirs.
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  • Poonam, 13, (right) is playing with the family's mobile phone next to her oldest sister Arti, 19, (left) and their mother, Sangita, 42, while sitting on the floor of their newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • Poonam, 9, (front) is running away from her sister Jyoti, 10, (left) while playing with friends on the streets of Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • A woman is being evacuated to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying her to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. She was wounded when a sniper bullet hit the van she was travelling on in Zaitseve, close to the frontline, as she was bringing humanitarian aid to civilians alongside another volunteer, who was also injured.
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  • A girl is being examined by a member of The Bhopal Medical Appeal during a community meeting near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • Sachin, 16, a boy suffering from a severe physical disorder affecting his bone structure and legs, is being helped washing by his grandmother, inside their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Copyright: Alex Masi
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  • On a rainy day, a girl is playing with an umbrella along the railway tracks passing through New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Young men are celebrating the festival of Janamashtami, the birthday of Hindu God Krishna, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A girl, followed by younger children, is buying a balloon from a local vendor passing near the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • An injured dog is sitting on the pavement in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A young boy is running home under heavy rain in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A boy is jumping while others are about to start a game of cricket around the abandoned evaporation pool (left) that was once used by Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) next to their industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. Thousands tons of hazardous chemical waste are still buried in various spots around this area of Bhopal.
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  • Meenakshi, 7, a child born with mental and physical disabilities from a gas-affected mother, is being washed by Sorom Bai, 35, in their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • Children are playing on a cart, while crossing a small flooded road in Oriya Basti, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, a water-affected colony located near the former Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • By burning a 'corporate man' statue, an effigy of unregulated, dangerous capitalism and exploitation, Bhopalis are demonstrating in front of the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, on the 29th anniversary since the disaster, December 2, 2013. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • In the early morning, a young girl is carrying her crying sibling towards their home by the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Siddhesh, 12, a boy suffering from severe celebral palsy is sitting on a toilet bowl inside his home in Nariyal Kheda, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. Siddhesh's father has abandoned him years ago. His mother is also suffering from mental retardation, and they now live with Siddhesh's maternal grandfather on the meagre pension he has earned after working as a civil servant. In 1984 Siddhesh's mother survived the poisonous gas cloud that enveloped Bhopal, leaving everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Rachna, 8, (right) a girl suffering from a severe neurological disorder, is riding the Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre's bus with her sister, Reena, 12, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Rachi, 7, a disabled girl affected by microcephaly and myoclonic epilepsy, is being restrained with a cord to her ankle by her mother Jyoti Yadav, 34, a '1984 Gas Survivor', in order to keep her from wandering off on her own and being at risk of abuse and danger, while inside their home near Saifiya College, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • By burning a 'corporate man' statue, an effigy of unregulated, dangerous capitalism and exploitation, Bhopalis are demonstrating in front of the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, on the 29th anniversary since the disaster, December 2, 2013. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Rashid Ali, 35, a '1984 Gas Survivor', is talking on a mobile phone while hugging his disabled son Rahil Ali, 7, a boy affected by lissencephaly, inside their home in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Rahil lives with his father and deaf grandmother in a small, single room rented within a larger house. Due to the hardship and stigma associated to birth defects in India, in 2009 Rahil's mother left the family.
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  • People are visiting the market in Bagega, pop. 9000, a large village affected by lead poisoning due to the unsafe techniques employed for extracting gold, in Zamfara State, Nigeria. It is mainly caused by ingestion and breathing of lead particles released in the steps to isolate the gold from other metals. This type of lead is soluble in stomach acid and children under-5 are most affected, as they tend to ingest more through their hands by touching the ground, and are developing symptoms often leading to death or serious disabilities.
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  • Two boys, controlled by a guard, are looking for impure gold in the last step of the extraction in an artisanal processing site near Bagega, pop. 9000, a large village affected by lead poisoning due to the unsafe techniques employed for extracting gold, in Zamfara State, Nigeria. The contamination is caused by ingestion and breathing of lead particles released in the steps to isolate the gold from other metals. This type of lead is soluble in stomach acid and children under-5 are most affected, as they tend to ingest more through their hands by touching the ground, and are developing symptoms often leading to death or serious disabilities.
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  • Doctors at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) are trying to reanimate Marhazu Sa'adu, 9 days old, a child suffering from blood lead level of 49.6 micrograms per decilitre, tetanus and septicaemia, inside the MSF clinic in Anka, Zamfara State, Nigeria. Marhazu passed away within the day. The MSF facility handles serious cases of lead poisoning referred to them by local clinics in the surrounding villages. It is mainly caused by ingestion and breathing of lead particles released in the steps to isolate the gold from other metals. This type of lead is soluble in stomach acid and children under-5 are most affected, as they tend to ingest more through their hands by touching the ground, and are developing symptoms often leading to death or serious disabilities. The treatment with MSF starts when blood lead level (BLL) samples reach 45 micrograms per decilitre. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that a BLL of 5 micro-g/dL or above is a cause for concern. The cycle of medicines lasts for 20 days. After that, the child's blood is tested and a new round of treatment is provided. Treatment can last years, as lead is reduced in the blood, but it persists noticeably within the bones, especially if the patients return to the same polluted environment. Remediation of the affected villages, a campaign of awareness, and the introduction of safer mining techniques are pivotal to the long-term solution of a hazardous trend that has already killed over 460 children, and it is bound to grow in size, fostered by the ever-rising price of gold.
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  • A young boy is walking on the hilltop surrounding the tannery area of Jajmau,<br />
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, located on the most polluted stretch of the mighty Ganges River.
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  • Poonam, 11, is standing inside her family's newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • Poonam, 12, (right) is celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, next to her oldest sister Arti, 18, in the front yard of their family's newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • Ashia, 31, a '1984 Gas Survivor', is lifting her disabled son Anas, 11, a boy affected by severe cerebral palsy, while inside their home in Aishbag Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Sharma Khan, 31, a '1984 Gas Survivor', is applying some talco on the face and neck of her disabled daughter Sufiya, 7, a girl affected by severe cerebral palsy, while in their home in Shajahanbad, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • With great effort, Farida Sultan, 44, a '1984 Gas Survivor', is lifting Azhar, 16, one of her two severely disabled sons affected by severe muscular dystrophy, while inside their home in Shahjahanbad, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Mohammed Mohsin, 14, a boy suffering from severe cerebral palsy, is being fed water by his mother, a '1984 Gas Survivor', inside a public hospital in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A mother is feeding breast milk to her malnourished child (right) while lying on the floor of a feeding centre run by UNICEF in the town Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • A boy is standing inside the affected village of Bagega, pop. 9000, Zamfara State, Nigeria, next to a large artisanal gold processing site. The lead contamination in the area is caused by ingestion and breathing of lead particles, released in the steps to isolate the gold from other metals. This type of lead is soluble in stomach acid and children under-5 are most affected, as they tend to ingest more through their hands by touching the ground, and are developing symptoms often leading to death or serious disabilities.
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  • A young worker is standing in the artisanal gold processing site of the village of Bagega, pop. 9000, Zamfara State, Nigeria. The lead contamination in the area is caused by ingestion and breathing of particles released in the steps to isolate the gold from other metals. This type of lead is soluble in stomach acid and children under-5 are most affected, as they tend to ingest more through their hands by touching the ground, and are developing symptoms often leading to death or serious disabilities.
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  • Shacks are seen from a window of Mama Ester's creche in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, where over a million people live in the extreme poverty..
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  • Now studying pedagogy and psychology, a young Ukrainian soldier named Vadim, 24, lost his left-arm and both legs when two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hit the armoured vehicle he was driving in February 2015. He is portrayed while residing at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city, in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Poonam, 6, is revelling in the heavy monsoon rain in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, central India, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. When the monsoon rain falls every year, it seeps through the buried, hazardous waste of Union Carbide, before proceeding to pollute the area's underground water reservoirs.
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  • Poonam, 6, is revelling in the heavy monsoon rain in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, central India, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. When the monsoon rain falls every year, it seeps through the buried, hazardous waste of Union Carbide, before proceeding to pollute the area's underground water reservoirs.
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  • Jyoti, 10, (left) and her younger sister Poonam, 9, (right) are oiling their hair while getting ready for school, as they stand inside their newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • On Children's Day 2014, November 14, Poonam's sister Jyoti, 13, is arguing with a classmate over a piece of chalk, while playing around near a blackboard, inside a room of the cozy, private schooll the sisters regularly attend since 2011, located by their newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
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  • Poonam, 6, is revelling in the heavy monsoon rain in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, central India, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. When the monsoon rain falls every year, it seeps through the buried, hazardous waste of Union Carbide, before proceeding to pollute the area's underground water reservoirs.
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  • Poonam, 6, is revelling in the heavy monsoon rain in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, central India, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. When the monsoon rain falls every year, it seeps through the buried, hazardous waste of Union Carbide, before proceeding to pollute the area's underground water reservoirs.
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  • Julia Paevska is leading a first-aid course for soldiers at a military base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is bringing presents and talking to teachers at a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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