- Hawai‘i
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WOMEN’S HEALTH
An Endless Battle
Your child is sick. Now you must choose. Feed your other children or buy medicine for one, walk 7 hours to the closest clinic or help harvest the crop threatening to rot in the field, care for your aging parent or addicted child. For most people in the world, health is about balancing scarce resources. It is a weight shouldered primarily by women who must face intimate choices often influenced by social mores, politics and big business. Women—the caregivers and advocates, the victims and healers. (Personal project)
Whether body, mind or spirit, healing is about the heart. In the hands of a traditional healer, this leaf can cure all.—Peru
It is a country lacking in so many resources but not compassionate care for expecting moms who need better nutrition and care.—Cuba
The miracle of birth without benefit of drugs.—Dominican Republic
On one side of the wall a birth, on the other an abortion.—Dominican Republic
Prejudice taints the care of a woman from Haiti who is undergoing an abortion.—Dominican Republic
A newborn begins her life under a make-shift oxygen tent.—Dominican Republic
Suicide seemed the only bearable choice for this child bride of 14. Her husband looks on as nurses try to revive her.—Cuba
The discipline of daily Qi gong exercise and traditional Chinese remedies, have returned these women with diabetes to a state of health.—China
A dedicated woman physician uses both medicine and tenderness in treating a child with cancer.—China
The source of most entrenched disease and infection is lack of clean water, poverty, lack of education. This woman must pay a week᾿s wages for a basin of water.—Haiti
In the Port au Prince Children᾿s Hospital, mothers and grandmothers do most of the care.—Haiti
A Haitian nurse in training has only the most basic healthcare tools.—Haiti
There are no drugs here, no lifesaving machines. This mother must buy what little medicine she can find for her child on the street.—Haiti
The only blood transfusion machine in the ICU broken, nursing students watch the procedure being done by hand, a life threatening alternative.—Haiti
An exhausted mother’s vigil-beds for these smallest patients are rare.—Haiti
Good health is linked to identity and self-esteem for this Olympic-class sharpshooter.—Iran
When this woman’s identity was altered violently by a landmine, courage and exercise helped her heal in mind and body.—Iran
Prevention and exercise go hand in hand for this village basketball team.—Botswana
Women's passion for sports is international. Members of the women’s track team tease each other between classes.—Botswana
At Chilonga Mission Hospital, a woman hears for the first time of what she suspected—her husband infected her with HIV months ago.—Zambia
Midwife, Joyce Chuba, uses a stethoscope she made out of local clay. A volunteer, she has delivered 600 babies since 1995.—Zambia
A healthy sense of community is shared by the women who gather in Mariate Banda’ls beauty shop—a center for gossip and friendship.—Zambia