Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Kano, Nigeria. Polio victim Abubakar, 6, crawls next to the footprint of mother at his family home. (image 1 of 10)
Mary Calvert is an award-winning photographer who travels the globe documenting a wide range of issues. A natural storyteller, she remains a true believer that the light cast by photojournalism is capable of affecting meaningful social change. In this series, Calvert's work brings attention to polio, a highly infectious virus that cripples children it does not kill.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Kano, Nigeria. Polio victim Abubakar, 6, crawls next to the footprint of mother at his family home. (image 1 of 10)
Mary Calvert is an award-winning photographer who travels the globe documenting a wide range of issues. A natural storyteller, she remains a true believer that the light cast by photojournalism is capable of affecting meaningful social change. In this series, Calvert's work brings attention to polio, a highly infectious virus that cripples children it does not kill.
Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Young men crippled by polio limp and roll through traffic on makeshift skateboards, begging for alms from drivers.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Young men crippled by polio limp and roll through traffic on makeshift skateboards, begging for alms from drivers.
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Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Instead of receiving the polio vaccine during an immunization campaign, boys study the Koran at their neighborhood Islamic school.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Instead of receiving the polio vaccine during an immunization campaign, boys study the Koran at their neighborhood Islamic school.
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Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: A young boy fights vaccinators trying to give him two drops of polio vaccine during an Immunization Plus Day in the Fagge Government Area near Kano, Nigeria.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: A young boy fights vaccinators trying to give him two drops of polio vaccine during an Immunization Plus Day in the Fagge Government Area near Kano, Nigeria.
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Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Polio victim Abubakar, 6, right, follows a boy in his neighborhood.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Polio victim Abubakar, 6, right, follows a boy in his neighborhood.
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Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Families bring their children crippled by polio to the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in Kano, Nigeria to receive light treatment. Families pay 100 Naira, about forty cents for 15 minutes under heat lamps.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Families bring their children crippled by polio to the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in Kano, Nigeria to receive light treatment. Families pay 100 Naira, about forty cents for 15 minutes under heat lamps.
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Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Crippled by polio, Musa Asa, 18 years old, makes roughly forty cents a day, shoveling sand dredged from the Tamburawa River. He has been working there four years.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Crippled by polio, Musa Asa, 18 years old, makes roughly forty cents a day, shoveling sand dredged from the Tamburawa River. He has been working there four years.
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Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: A polio victim washes his crippled and twisted feet before afternoon prayers.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: A polio victim washes his crippled and twisted feet before afternoon prayers.
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Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: During an immunization campaign children five years old and under line up to receive two drops on the tongue of polio vaccine.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: During an immunization campaign children five years old and under line up to receive two drops on the tongue of polio vaccine.
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Best Global Health Story, Professional: Mary F. Calvert.
TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Omar, 8, looks out a doorway of his home. He is crippled with polio despite being the son of the chairman of the Polio Victim's Association.
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TITLE: CROSSING THE LINE.
CAPTION: Omar, 8, looks out a doorway of his home. He is crippled with polio despite being the son of the chairman of the Polio Victim's Association.
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Best Global Health Image, Professional: Carlos Cazalis.
TITLE: Cholera 03.
CAPTION: A Haitian woman suffering from severe dehydration is checked for cholera at a field hospital outside Port-Au-Prince. The water borne disease spreads fear in the communities as it passes through the water systems and rivers.
Carlos Cazalis of Mexico uses photography to document the effects of the poverty and military dictatorships he experienced as a child living in the Americas. He believes engaging in the livelihood of his subjects helps reach an editorialist view that is personal. Cazalis has captured visceral human feelings with photos documenting a range of international news events including the cholera outbreak in Haiti.
TITLE: Cholera 03.
CAPTION: A Haitian woman suffering from severe dehydration is checked for cholera at a field hospital outside Port-Au-Prince. The water borne disease spreads fear in the communities as it passes through the water systems and rivers.
Carlos Cazalis of Mexico uses photography to document the effects of the poverty and military dictatorships he experienced as a child living in the Americas. He believes engaging in the livelihood of his subjects helps reach an editorialist view that is personal. Cazalis has captured visceral human feelings with photos documenting a range of international news events including the cholera outbreak in Haiti.
Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: San Pablo Hospital, Paraguay. A high rate of teen pregnancy, lack of sex education and reproductive and sexual abuse overshadowed by gender discrimination result in complicated deliveries and illegal abortions.
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Rodrigo Alfaro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. All too familiar with health realities in his homeland, Alfaro aims to tell stories about the social conflicts, protests and slums in Argentina, Nicaragua and Paraguay. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide with critical acclaim. "Death from Childbirth in Paraguay" captures the plight of too many newborns and mothers in this country.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: San Pablo Hospital, Paraguay. A high rate of teen pregnancy, lack of sex education and reproductive and sexual abuse overshadowed by gender discrimination result in complicated deliveries and illegal abortions.
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Rodrigo Alfaro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. All too familiar with health realities in his homeland, Alfaro aims to tell stories about the social conflicts, protests and slums in Argentina, Nicaragua and Paraguay. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide with critical acclaim. "Death from Childbirth in Paraguay" captures the plight of too many newborns and mothers in this country.
Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Red Cross, Asunción, Paraguay. The absence of an anesthesiologist results in painful deliveries, as inexperienced stand-ins provide insufficient doses. When doses are too high, the result can be irreversible damage or death.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Red Cross, Asunción, Paraguay. The absence of an anesthesiologist results in painful deliveries, as inexperienced stand-ins provide insufficient doses. When doses are too high, the result can be irreversible damage or death.
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Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Barrio Obrero Hospital, Paraguay. One potential result of pregnancy without adequate care is premature birth. In some hospitals infants are treated with faulty equipment; others are simply left to die.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Barrio Obrero Hospital, Paraguay. One potential result of pregnancy without adequate care is premature birth. In some hospitals infants are treated with faulty equipment; others are simply left to die.
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Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscal Estigarribia Hospital, Boquerón, Paraguay. Mothers and children room with other patients, adjacent to a tuberculosis-infected area. There is little protection against the Vinchuca(veen-chu-kah), a parasite-carrying insect that can cause severe sickness or death.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscal Estigarribia Hospital, Boquerón, Paraguay. Mothers and children room with other patients, adjacent to a tuberculosis-infected area. There is little protection against the Vinchuca(veen-chu-kah), a parasite-carrying insect that can cause severe sickness or death.
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Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscal Estigarribia Hospital, Boquerón, Paraguay. In rural areas the average is 5 children per marriage. When the mother dies in childbirth, the situation is critical because children have to care for each other.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscal Estigarribia Hospital, Boquerón, Paraguay. In rural areas the average is 5 children per marriage. When the mother dies in childbirth, the situation is critical because children have to care for each other.
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Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Barrio Obrero Hospital, Paraguay. In the few vaginal births that take place, women are often left in a weakened state, and doctors resort to risky procedures to save the baby's life.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Barrio Obrero Hospital, Paraguay. In the few vaginal births that take place, women are often left in a weakened state, and doctors resort to risky procedures to save the baby's life.
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Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscal Estigarribia, Boquerón, Paraguay. A dying child was treated and sent home with his mother after the hospital was unable to make a proper diagnosis.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscal Estigarribia, Boquerón, Paraguay. A dying child was treated and sent home with his mother after the hospital was unable to make a proper diagnosis.
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Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Barrio Obrero Hospital, Paraguay. Post-partum care is scarce, and mothers and their babies are often discharged without necessary testing.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Barrio Obrero Hospital, Paraguay. Post-partum care is scarce, and mothers and their babies are often discharged without necessary testing.
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Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscal Estigarribia, Boquerón, Paraguay. A 15 year old girl with her 16 year old husband andbaby, after a blood transfusion.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscal Estigarribia, Boquerón, Paraguay. A 15 year old girl with her 16 year old husband andbaby, after a blood transfusion.
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Best Global Health Story, Amateur: Rodrigo Alfaro.
TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscál Estigarribia, Paraguay. A mother with her sick child prematurely discharged from the hospital, has been waiting more than a day for a ride to their community over 30 miles away.
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TITLE: Deaths from Childbirth in Paraguay.
CAPTION: Mariscál Estigarribia, Paraguay. A mother with her sick child prematurely discharged from the hospital, has been waiting more than a day for a ride to their community over 30 miles away.
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Best Global Health Image, Amateur: Gerardo Sabado.
TITLE: Isolation.
CAPTION: Patients diagnosed with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) being treated in the TB isolation ward in a hospital in Manila. The hospital enforces a strict "No mask, No entry" policy.
Gerardo Sabado of the Philippines is a surgeon by trade, but his photography may be saving lives as well. He explores the far corners of the Philippines and Asia with camera in hand, often documenting the state of diseases and healthcare in these areas. Sabado's recent work highlights multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a strain of TB where first-line drugs used to treat patients are ineffective.
TITLE: Isolation.
CAPTION: Patients diagnosed with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) being treated in the TB isolation ward in a hospital in Manila. The hospital enforces a strict "No mask, No entry" policy.
Gerardo Sabado of the Philippines is a surgeon by trade, but his photography may be saving lives as well. He explores the far corners of the Philippines and Asia with camera in hand, often documenting the state of diseases and healthcare in these areas. Sabado's recent work highlights multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a strain of TB where first-line drugs used to treat patients are ineffective.
Best Global Health Multimedia, Professional: Stefano De Luigi.
TITLE: Blanco.
CAPTION: Stefano De Luigi's multimedia emphasizes the importance of education, support and prevention (when possible) for blind people in developing countries. De Luigi began the project in India, in 2003. He spent the next four years shooting at hospitals and schools for the blind in sixteen different countries.
Stefano De Luigi is a member of VII and a World Press Photo three time winner. He won POYi Best Photography Book Award with "Blanco," and from it produced this multimedia project by the same name. "Blanco," emphasizes the importance of education, support and prevention (when possible) for blind people in developing countries.
TITLE: Blanco.
CAPTION: Stefano De Luigi's multimedia emphasizes the importance of education, support and prevention (when possible) for blind people in developing countries. De Luigi began the project in India, in 2003. He spent the next four years shooting at hospitals and schools for the blind in sixteen different countries.
Stefano De Luigi is a member of VII and a World Press Photo three time winner. He won POYi Best Photography Book Award with "Blanco," and from it produced this multimedia project by the same name. "Blanco," emphasizes the importance of education, support and prevention (when possible) for blind people in developing countries.
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