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  • Bandaged leg of a young boy suffering from guinea worm at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan.
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  • A child receives two drops of polio vaccine during the second round of vaccination in Djambala Village, Republic of Congo on Wednesday December 8, 2010.
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  • A patient receives treatment at a cholera treatment center at the Kibati IDP camp on the outskirts of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday December 12, 2008.
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  • Boys fill plastic containers with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Boys tie plastic containers full of water to the back of their bicycles as they prepare to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
    GHA07.0310.GUINEAWORM430.jpg
  • Girls fill containers with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
    GHA07.0310.GUINEAWORM357.jpg
  • Bandaged foot of a boy suffering from guinea worm at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • Assana Mohammed, 10, cries as a health worker extracts a guinea worm her ankle at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • People fill containers with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Children carrying water buckets on their heads  in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on March 10, 2007.
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  • A woman helps another lift a bucket of water on top of her head at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • A boy who suffers from malaria lies on a bed in a clinic run by MSF next to the Tabacongo health center, in the town of Tabacongo, Katanga province, on Sunday February 19, 2012.
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  • A woman and her child stand in the doorway of their home during the visit of a polio vaccination team in Djambala, Republic of Congo on Wednesday December 8, 2010.
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  • A young woman stands in the doorway of her home after the door was marked with chalk by vaccinators to indicate that occupants were vaccinated against polio in Djambala, Republic of Congo on Wednesday December 8, 2010.
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  • A woman's finger is marked with indelible ink after she was vaccinated against polio during the second round of vaccination in Djambala Village, Republic of Congo on Wednesday December 8, 2010.
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  • A man gets vaccinated against polio during the second round of vaccination in Djambala Village, Republic of Congo on Wednesday December 8, 2010.
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  • A member of a social mobilization team uses a megaphone from a moving vehicle to inform the population about the upcoming polio vaccination round in Djambala, Republic of Congo on Tuesday December 7, 2010.
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  • Volunteers hang a banner announcing the upcoming round of polio vaccination in Djambala, Republic of Congo on Monday December 6, 2010.
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  • Relatives prepare to bury the body of Rachel Yaki Diane, 26, who died following a polio infection at the Vendelou cemetery in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo on Saturday December 4, 2010.
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  • His father Alphonse sits next to Blaise Alonda, 19, who suffers from polio, at the Loandjili hospital in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, on Saturday December 4, 2010. Blaise first started feeling ill almost three weeks ago. He was diagnosed and treated for malaria, but woke up unable to move his arms and legs the next morning.
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  • Volunteer Napoleon Mukengue uses a megaphone to announce the upcoming polio vaccination campaign to the population as he walks down a street in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo on Thursday December 2, 2010.
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  • Vivien Massomba, 12, who suffers from palsy following a polio infection, grimaces while being massaged by a health worker at the Tie-Tie hospital in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, on Thursday December 2, 2010.
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  • Deo Gracia Bomda, 12, who suffers from palsy following a polio infection, lies in bed while being massaged by a health worker at the Tie-Tie hospital in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, on Thursday December 2, 2010.
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  • A bible lies next to the foot of Maouaka, 19, who suffers from respiratory complications from polio, as she lies in a bed at the A. Sice general hospital in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo on Wednesday December 1, 2010. Maouaka died a few hours after this image was taken.
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  • A boy ties a plastic container full of water to the back of his bike as he prepares to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • A boy ties a plastic container full of water to the back of his bike as he prepares to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • A boy fills a barrel with water to be carried with his donkey-pulled cart at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Women carry water buckets on their heads as they walk back home from Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • A boy sets up a mesh filter on top a large barrel before filling it with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Mesh filters use to prevent guinea worm lay on the ground while two boys drive the donkey-pulled cart they use to carry large barrels of water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Boys fill barrels with water to be carried with his donkey-pulled cart at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
    GHA07.0309.GUINEAWORM227.jpg
  • A boy fills barrels loaded on a donkey-pulled cart with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Dawoda Idrissu, 17, sits at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
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  • Information sign on guinea worm outside the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
    GHA07.0309.GUINEAWORM125.jpg
  • A health worker holds up a guinea worm after pulling it out of the leg of Fatima Sayibu, 4, at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
    GHA07.0309.GUINEAWORM074.jpg
  • A boy with suffering from guinea worm sits at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
    GHA07.0309.GUINEAWORM012.jpg
  • People gather to fetch water from a pond at Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Vivien Massomba, 12, who suffers from palsy following a polio infection, grimaces while being massaged by a health worker at the Tie-Tie hospital in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, on Thursday December 2, 2010.
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  • Tony Boussana, 24, who is partly paralized by polio, is helped by his girlfriend Sabena, 19, as he tries to sit up in his bed at the A. Cisse Hospital in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo on Friday December 3, 2010. "When I got to the hospital I could still move my arms, but now I can't", he says. "I feel completely lost."
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  • Volunteer Napoleon Mukengue uses a megaphone to announce the upcoming polio vaccination campaign to the population as he walks down a street in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo on Thursday December 2, 2010.
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  • Maouaka, 19, who suffers from respiratory complications from polio, lies in a bed at the A. Sice general hospital in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo on Wednesday December 1, 2010. Maouaka died a few hours after this image was taken.
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  • A boy ties a plastic container full of water to the back of his bike as he prepares to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
    GHA07.0310.GUINEAWORM427.jpg
  • People gather to fetch water from a pond at Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Children carrying water buckets on their heads  in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on March 10, 2007.
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  • A woman helps another lift a bucket of water on top of her head at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • People fill containers with water at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • A boy ties plastic containers full of water to the back of his bike as he prepares to head home at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • A boy removes a mesh filter from atop a barrel after filling it with water  at the Dikunani dam in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. The only of four water sources that has not completely dried out around Savelugu, the pond is used by hundreds of people daily who sometimes walk several kilometers to fetch water. Despite the presence of mesh filters available to people who come get water, cases of guinea worm in the area have gone up sharply in the recent months.
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  • Amina Abukari, 7, lies on a wooden bench as as a health worker extracts a guinea worm from her buttocks at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
    GHA07.0309.GUINEAWORM106.jpg
  • A health worker extracts a guinea worm from the ankle of ten-year-old Assana Mohammed, at the guinea worm case containment center in Savelugu, northern Ghana, on Friday March 9, 2007. A parasite transmitted through water, guinea worm emerges from the host's body nine months after drinking contaminated water. Measuring up to 1 meter, it can only be pulled out a few cm every day to prevent it from breaking inside the host's body. Despite a widespread eradication program Ghana has the second largest number of cases in the world - after Sudan..
    GHA07.0309.GUINEAWORM054.jpg
  • Severin Kouadio Kouakou holds a diseased cocoa pod on his friend Daniel's cocoa plantation near the town of Moussadougou, Bas-Sassandra region, Cote d'Ivoire on Monday March 5, 2012.
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  • A woman sets bowls, pots and dishes on an elevated dish rack, used to dry dishes instead laying them directly on the ground, outside her home in the village of Kawejah, Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia on Friday April 6, 2012. As part of the UNICEF-sponsored CLTS (community-led total sanitation) programme, such racks are built by families to help improve hygiene conditions and prevent the spread of diseases.
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  • A woman suffering from cholera lies on a bed at the Virunga cholera treament center in Goma, Eastern Democratic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. Mungwiko is the second of eight siblings to be infected with cholera. With the recent displacement of over 300,000 people in DRC's North Kivu province, thousands of people are living in close proximity, in IDP camps or in host families, increasing the stress on already scarce water supply networks and increasing the transmission rate of infectious diseases such as cholera.
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  • A woman suffering from cholera lies on a bed at the Virunga cholera treament center in Goma, Eastern Democratic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. Mungwiko is the second of eight siblings to be infected with cholera. With the recent displacement of over 300,000 people in DRC's North Kivu province, thousands of people are living in close proximity, in IDP camps or in host families, increasing the stress on already scarce water supply networks and increasing the transmission rate of infectious diseases such as cholera.
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  • A girl suffering from cholera drinks to re-hydrate herself while recovering at the Virunga cholera treament center in Goma, Eastern Democratic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. Mungwiko is the second of eight siblings to be infected with cholera. With the recent displacement of over 300,000 people in DRC's North Kivu province, thousands of people are living in close proximity, in IDP camps or in host families, increasing the stress on already scarce water supply networks and increasing the transmission rate of infectious diseases such as cholera.
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  • A girl suffering from cholera sits on her bed at the Virunga cholera treament center in Goma, Eastern Democratic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. Mungwiko is the second of eight siblings to be infected with cholera. With the recent displacement of over 300,000 people in DRC's North Kivu province, thousands of people are living in close proximity, in IDP camps or in host families, increasing the stress on already scarce water supply networks and increasing the transmission rate of infectious diseases such as cholera.
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