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Photos from the Field

    Images below are from the countries where the International Emergency Refugee Health Branch has participated in projects.

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    Health and nutrition assessment survey

    IERHB Personnel list household items in a health and nutrition assessment survey. Badghis Province, Afghanistan, 2002
    2 Maslakh Camp residents travel across desert

    Maslakh Camp residents walk a long distance for wood to use as cooking fuel.  Herat, Afghanistan, 2002
    Sar Cheshma aab Kamari Village

    Sar Cheshma aab Kamari Village was used in health and nutrition survey.  Badghis Province, Afghanistan, 2002
    Blood specimens centrifuged

    Mongolian blood specimens are centrifuged in the field with a portable generator in a nutrition survey. Mongolia, 2001
    House in the Zavkhan Province

    A household in Zavkhan Province was selected at random for inclusion in a nutrition survey. Mongolia 2001
    Test kit for houshould iodine

    Positive results from testing household salt for iodine in a nutrition survey. Mongolia, 2001 
    tent camp

    Rwandan refugees making camp in Kimbumba. Eastern Zaire, 1994
    Elderly patient receives exam

    Assessed nutritional status of elderly patients during civil war.  Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1995
    Mine removal

    Mines were removed at the Kabul Airport.
    Airplane skeletons

    Unexploded remnants of civil war heavily contaminate the countryside.
    Child receives measles vaccine

    An Afghan child receives a measles vaccination.
    Refugees outside Kabul

     

    Refugees complete the 3 day journey back from Pakistan and rest at a transit camp outside of Kabul.
    Child receives vaccination

    An Afghan child receives a Polio vaccination. 
    Western Kabul Desert

    The landscape of Western Kabul after decades of fighting.

    The Noor Eye Hospital helped many refugees in West Kabul.

    spacer gif Mine risk education class inside tent

    Mine risk education is taught to the returning refugees in Pakistan.

    spacer gif An interview of a mother in Mtendeli camp

    A mother is interviewed in Mtendeli camp during the iron cooking pot project survey. Western Tanzania, Africa 2003

    spacer gif busy camp center

    Distribution day pictured in a Mtendeli camp, a Burundian refugee camp.  Western Tanzania, Africa

    spacer gif IERHB conducts interview outside home

    Midterm evaluation interview of a mother in the intervention camp for the iron cooking pot project.  Nduta camp, Africa 2002

    spacer gif A Rebel soldier in Sudan having blood taken

    A Rebel soldier in Sudan had blood taken for HIV and syphilis tests.