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On World Health Day, events around the globe with mark the importance of good health for productive and happy lives. All of the people in this gallery have benefited with thanks to health programmes supported by Christian Aid
Christian Aid/Sian Curry
Eighteen-year-old Fransisco Kuiana (left)
and sixteen-year-old Nelson Zangula are
students at Ana Paula School in Luanda,
Angola. They are part of a small group
of volunteers trained in malaria and HIV
awareness. The boys are now raising
awareness among fellow students and in
their local community.
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Christian Aid/Caroline Waterman
This puppet show in Mathare, the second
largest slum in Nairobi, draws a crowd
of 1000 upwards and helps communicate
important messages about HIV/AIDS. In
this performance, the woman puppet on
the right has just found out that her
husband (on the left) has been diagnosed
with HIV.
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Christian Aid / Hannah Richards
In Peru, Amador Lopez Cardenas keeps
bees and uses the honey to produce
natural health remedies for the local
community. With the money he earns he
can feed, clothe and educate his
children.
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Christian Aid/Caroline Waterman
Before Christian Aid partner Water
Action (Ethiopia) built this point the
community could only access dirty water
leaving them vulnerable to disease. Now
the water is safe to drink and easier to
collect.
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Christian Aid / Elaine Duigenan
A mother and daughter have their check
up at a mobile dental clinic run by
Mobile clinics ensure that the poorest
communities in Gaza have access to
dental care.
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Christian Aid/Antoinette Powell
Men, women and children from Jorgama,
Bihar patiently queue to see the first
medical team to visit their community
since the catastrophic flood a month
before.
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Christian Aid / Asif Hassan / AFP
Tahira Khanam (2nd left), 22, from the
village of Sarbala in Pakistan-
administered Kashmir, takes her nephew
to an Islamic Relief health centre for a
check-up. People often have to walk for
miles through the snow to get food
supplies or medical help.
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Christian Aid/Hannah Richards
Jaime is only 7 but he has already won
an award for being a young campaigner.
He marched to congress to demand that
the rights of children living with HIV
were included in the new Bolivian
constitution. He wears his mobile phone
around his neck; it goes off to help him
remember to take his medicine.
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