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12. Village health workers attending a course on primary health care in Torodi, Niger. The teacher is a qualified male nurse. The new emphasis on training primary health workers stems from the realization that simply providing more physicians and more nurses will not solve the health problems of devloping countries
13. Immunize and protect your child
14. Prevention is essential to protect life and there is no substitute for vaccination and immunization
15. Epidemiological surveillance
16. For these boys at an Indian school, early preventive treatment for incipient trachoma will probably safeguard their young eyesight for a whole lifetime
17. Under careful supervision, this Sudan schoolboy is treating his classmates' eyes for trachoma. This will ensure that treatment countinues after the trachoma control team leaves the district
18. This little boy is having an eye check-up which should ensure that any threat to his sight is recognized in time and prevented. Many thousands of less fortunate children go blind unnecessarily every year for want of simple precautions or low-cost treatment
19. Members of the trachoma control team examine an elderly patient in a rural area. Although trachoma is the principle cause of blindness here, many cases are also found of such ailments as cataract and glaucome. Some cases will respond to simple surgical treatment
20. The silver screen flickers in the Indian night. Television can convey a particularly vivid health message, but most developing countries sets are rare outside the large towns
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