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Moyo Hospital in the operating room. A medical student, who in Western society would normally observe and possibly assist in surgery, here performs the most critical work while supervised by a certified physican.

Pediatrics ward, Moyo Hospital. The infant pictured was carried from the Sudan and is suffering from malnutrition and sleeping sickness. Extraordinarily high rates of infant mortality are common in Uganda.

Moyo hospital entrace to the Sleeping Sickness ward. Patients wait all day for blood tests and treatment. In 1980, Medecins Sans Frontier began lending assistance in Uganda. The Moyo Hospital is now the largest treatment center for the illness in…

Sleeping sickness is an often fatal, endemic disease of animals and man transmitted by the Tsetse fly. Initial symptoms are fever and lethargy. The single cell protozoa causing illness can be viewed in the blood with a microscope.

At night on the ferry across the White Nile, a young man who had been diagnosed as a sleeping sickness sufferer has a seizure attack and dementia (madness). The attack indicates the illness is in an advanced stage.

In Adjunani, a village south of Moyo and across the Albert (White Nile), the classroom is an open shed with benches and the tree has become a blackboard on which is displayed the alphabet. This town, like so many others, is plagued by sleeping…

Downtown Moyo, Uganda, once called the 'Pearl of Africa' by Winston Churchill, is a nightmare of poverty and ruin. Per capita income is less than $300 a year. Life expectancy is 53 years and proper health care is lacking.

A Croatian National Guardsmen watches the body of a Serbian soldier slain in the street of a Croatian town.

Two Croatian soldiers battle against Serbian snipers in the village of Borovo. August, 1991.

A wounded soldier being attended to in Croatia.