DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
A woman suffering from severe diarrhea, a possible cholera case, is picked up in a remote village by a Medecins Sans Frontiers mobile team in the south eastern province of Katanga. The region has been severely effected by fighting between government forces and Mai Mai militias. Over 1200 people die everyday in the RD Congo largely due to preventable diseases such as malaria, malnutrition and tuberculosis..Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo. 16/06/2006..Photo © J.B. Russell