Healthcare in Africa

Documentaries focusing on healthcare services in various African settings. Images of doctors and patients illustrate the challenges and community care.

A young mother and her child in Basse Health centre, Gambia

Reportage in Fann hospital, Dakar, Senegal. Doctor examining a patient.

Photo essay in Lomé, Togo. Medical center for HIV patients.

A young mother and her child in Basse Health centre, Gambia

Photo essay in a hospital in Brazaville in Congo.

At a district hospital in Kirbi, Cameroon, a medical officer examines a baby with an ear infection; Kribi, Cameroon

Uganda, Medical, Nurse Comforting Mother With Child With Malaria In Hospital In Orukinga Refugee Camp Near The Rwandan Border.

Medical consultation at Fann hospital (Dakar, Senegal).

Photo essay in Lomé, Togo. Child in hospital. Department of neurosurgery.

Photo essay in a hospital in Brazzaville, Congo. Medical consultation.

Haiti, Isla De Laganave, Mother And Daughter In Makeshift Hospital Post Eargthquake.

Baby boy receives a vaccination

Photo essay in Lomé, Togo. Medical center for HIV patients. Medical consultation.

Infant being fed with a bottle by a children's nurse in an orphanage near Bukoba, Tanzania, Africa

Catholic nun visiting an AIDS patient in a village near Dapong, Togo.

Tanzania, West, Great Lakes Region, Refugee Camp Health Centre. Male Staff With Woman And Child.

Africa. Sotouboua hospital. Paediatric unit. Togo.

Mothers and children suffering from malnutrition receiving food rations. Program of ambulatory treatment of malnutrition implemented by a local non-governmental organisation and Action contre la Faim (ACF), an international non-governmental organisation (Action against Hunger). Pipeline hospital, Monrovia, Liberia.

Photo essay at Saint Maurice hospital in France. Department of neonatology one week after the birth of the twins.

Photo essay at Saint Maurice hospital in France. Department of neonatology one week after the birth of the twins.

Medical center for HIV positive patients, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa

Photo essay in Lomé, Togo. Medical center for HIV patients.

Mother and child in an African hospital Lome. Togo.

A student doctor feeds orphan baby in Nairobi, Kenya.

Catholic nun visiting an AIDS patient in a village near Dapong, Togo.

Photo essay in a hospital in Brazzaville, Congo. Medical consultation with Pr Alain Deloche.

Undernourished child in a therapeutic feeding center in Monrovia, Liberia, implemented by Action contre la Faim (ACF), an international non-governmental organisation (Action against Hunger). These centers give malnourished people (especially children) nutritional and medical care.

Patients are being treated outside in a make shift hospital at St. Michael Hospital on January 17, 2010 in Jacmel, Haiti. Jacmel is located on the other side of Haiti with a city population of 50,000. Their Hospital was destroyed by the earthquake and is treating patients outside the hospital. About 350 people have lost their lives in Jacmel due to the earthquake that hit the region on January 12, 2010 according to Emmet Murphy Chief of Party ACDIL VOCA.

Portrait Of An Infant Dying Of Hiv/Aids, Manica, Mozambique, Africa

Bweyale medical center.

At the district hospital in Kribi, Cameroon, a mother holds her baby while a nurse prepares to examine her; Kribi, Cameroon

Uganda, Medical, Health Worker Giving Nutritional Advice To Mothers With Vulnerable Babies During Food Distribution At Orukinga Refugee Camp Near The Rwandan Border.

Appetite test : woman giving her child a ration of Plumpy nut, peanut-based therapeutic food. Program of ambulatory treatment of malnutrition implemented by a local non-governmental organisation and Action contre la Faim (ACF), an international non-governmental organisation (Action against Hunger). Pipeline hospital, Monrovia, Liberia.

Woman and children's AIDS clinic, Kigali, Rwanda

Asian woman pediatrician doctor hold stethoscope for exam a little girl patient and heck heart lungs of kid, Good family doctor visiting child at home, Healthcare and medicine for childhood concept.

A child�s bracelet is removed after receiving medication during a medical civic action program in Sulamadaha, Indonesia, on July 20, 2010. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in the North Maluku Islands conducting Pacific Partnership 2010, the fifth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet endeavors conducted in Indonesia as a disaster relief exercise aimed at strengthening regional partnerships.

Nurse measuring a patient's oxygen saturation level in a private hospital in Accra, Ghana

A visit in the children's hospital of Emergency Onlus in Mayo district

Cholera patient drip-feed resting.

Regular surgery in countryside outside Khartoum,

Medical, volunteer and portrait of child outdoor for healthcare outreach, community service and ngo. Doctors aid program, welfare missionary and healing non profit organization with kids for charity

Vaccine, child and hands of doctor with plaster for health, wellness and injection in clinic. Healthcare, kid and pediatrician in hospital for immune system strength, illness prevention and flu shot

Malawi, Mzuzu, Aided by his mother, Caroline Moyo, Moses receives F75 nutritious milk to deal with his malnourished condition

Africa. Sotoboua hospital. Paediatric unit. Medical consultation. Togo.

Africa. Sotouboua hospital. Paediatric unit. Togo.

Reportage in the neonatal unit of Robert-Debré hospital in Paris, France. Parent visiting.

Waiting room in a hospital in Bamako (Mali).

040727-F-0571C-048. Base: New Amsterdam State: Berbice District Country: Guyana (GUY)

U.S. Army Sgt. Gwendolyn Jackson-Edwards, a medic assigned to 354th Civil Affairs Brigade Special Functioning Team, treats a five-month old baby during a medical civil action project in Dammerjog, Djibouti, April 3, 2008. Service members assigned to Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa provided medical care to over 500 people in the area during the two-day event.

Female doctor examining a woman, prenatal testing, Garoua, Cameroon, Africa

Doctor examines a patient in a clinic in Lira, Uganda.

Doctor examining a child in a hospital, Manyemen, Cameroon, Africa

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, Kinshasa. Three new african mothers in the maternity hospital white dress carrying their newborns in their arms, sitting on a bench, waiting

110523-F-HS649-128LAE, Papua New Guinea (May 23, 2011) Pediatric nurse Lt. Cmdr. Rivka Weiss plays with a Papua New Guinean baby during a Pacific Partnership 2011 medical civil action project. Pacific Partnership is a five-month humanitarian assistance initiative that completed its mission in Tonga and Vanuatu, and will visit Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Malawi, Northern Region, Rumphi, Health Surveillance Assistant Bruno Banda checks the condition of children at Chozoli Village Clinic in Rumphi District.

Medical consultation, medical center for HIV positive patients, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa

Doctor listening to child's chest

Medical center for HIV+ patients, Medical consultation, Togo,10/18/2011

Photo essay in Lomé, Togo. Medical center for HIV patients. Medical consultation.

Photo essay in a hospital in Brazaville in Congo.

Reportage in a health center in Lome, Togo. Physiotherapy session.

HIV infected mother taking virus inhibitors, Gaborone, Botswana, Africa

Brazzaville Hospital. NGO la Chaîne de l'Espoir. Hospitalization of Children.

Brazzaville Hospital. Medical consultation of the NGO la Chaîne de l'Espoir. Professor Alain Deloche.

Brazzaville Hospital. NGO la Chaîne de l'Espoir.

Reportage in a post-natal clinic in Champigny, France. Since leaving the neonatal unit, the twins (3-months old) are checked every week to follow their growth.

centro de salud de lancetillo, La Parroquia, Quiche, República de Guatemala, América Central.

Photo essay at Saint Maurice hospital in France. Department of neonatology one week after the birth of the twins.

Child in consultation

Photo essay. One month after their birth, the twins left the department of neonatology.

A Djiboutian nurse performs infant CPR on a mannequin during a knowledge exchange event at Dar El Hanan hospital, Djibouti City, Djibouti, July 21, 2022. Members of the Civil Affairs-Africa functional specialty team and the Camp Lemonnier Expeditionary Medical Facility educated 28 Djiboutian nurses in Basic Life Saving techniques, maternal care, and infant care during the knowledge exchange event. (Department of Defense photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Thomas Johns)

Medical consultation at Fann hospital (Dakar, Senegal).

Africa. Sotoboua hospital. Paediatric unit. Medical consultation. Togo.

Reportage in a health center in Lome, Togo. Physiotherapy session.

Reportage in the neonatal unit of Robert-Debré hospital in Paris, France. Final advice from the nurse to the parents before leaving the hospital (medicine dosage, feeding etc.)

110216-N-6984M-001TANGA, Tanzania (Feb. 16, 2011) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Cheryl Parker shows photographs of her last visit to a local orphanage to nuns who work there. Parker visited the orphanage with her Maritime Civil Affairs Team as part of ongoing community outreach efforts.

A young girl complains of stomach problems through a translator to U.S. Army Capt. Drew Stephens during a medical civic action program as part of exercise Flintlock 2007 in Senkoro, Mali, Sept. 3, 2007. The exercise, which is meant to foster relationships of peace, security and cooperation among the Trans-Sahara nations, is part of the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership. The TSCTP is an integrated, multi-agency effort of the U.S. State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Defense Department.

Photo essay in a hospital in Brazzaville, Congo. Medical consultation.

A Somali child watches as LT. Curtis Anderson, a doctor serving with Combat Service Support Detachment 15 (CSSD-15), gives him an examination while participating in a medical civic action program during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Modadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Malawi, Northern Region, Rumphi, nurse weighting babies in hospital

Tanzania, Western Tanzania. Refugee camp maternity ward

A Woman Wearing A Mask Using A Stethoscope On A Boy With His Father, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu, India

close up woman with needle thread

Malaria in Sierra Leone.

Photo essay. One month after their birth, the twins left the department of neonatology.

Botswana, Pregnancy, Traditional Midwife Massaging Patient.

Maj. Donald McHone (right), a nurse with the Ohio Army National Guard, observes alongside Col. Silvia Silvestre (left), a pediatrician with the Angolan Armed Forces, in the pediatrics clinic in the village of Vale do Paraiso during the PAMBALA 2017 medical exercise Dec. 12, 2017, in Bengo Province, Angola. The purpose of the engagement for the Ohio National Guard is to give personnel the opportunity to share best practices, strengthen medical treatment processes, establish new relationships with members of the Angolan Armed Forces and to nurture their existing 11-year partnership with Serbia, through the National Guard State Partnership Program. (Ohio National Guard

Mother and child wearing mask avoiding swine flu Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India NO MR Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

A Muslim woman holds her child in her hands to administer Polio vaccination during Pulse Polio drive in Bombay now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

Woman and sign, HIV/AIDS awareness, Gaborone, Botswana, Africa

HA Nathan Bardin, a US Navy Corpsman assigned to Camp Pendleton, California, left, bandages up a Somali orphan after cleaning a foot abrasion with peroxide. The orphanage is just outside of Mogadishu. US Navy and Air Force medical personnel met up with a civilian care group (not shown) to assist in giving check-ups to the children in the orphanage. Once word got out that there was a medical team in town, women from the local area started bringing their children (not shown). The team tried to see as many as possible, but supplies quickly ran out. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town, Rondebosch Neighbourhood. Rehydration Ward In Red Cross ChildrenS Hospital. Child Patients Receiving Treatment With Their Mothers Sitting Beside The Bed.

Subjects of an HIV vaccine experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Photo essay in a hospital in Brazaville in Congo.

Photo essay at Saint Maurice hospital in France. Department of neonatology one week after the birth of the twins.

Young woman infected with leprosy waiting with her son in front of the leprosorium in Puri, India.

050226-F-9891G-032. Base: Sinaloan State: Laguna Country: Philippines (PHL)

Reportage in a post-natal clinic in Champigny, France. Since leaving the neonatal unit, the twins (3-months old) are checked every week to follow their growth. The waiting room.

A physician with the 46th Medical Task Force provides treatment to a Somali citizen. Subject Operation/Series: UNOSOM II Base: Modadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Ghanaian medical professionals screen, treat, and give medication to an elderly Ghanaian woman during a medical civic action program (MEDCAP) in Yendi, Ghana, September 01, 2022. MEDCAPs serve as temporary field clinics to provide limited medical treatment to the local population.

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