Picturing health: 35 years of photojournalism at WHO
PHOTO FEATURE ON INSECT-BORNE DISEASES
An Iranian village becomes health conscious: Iran, 1958
WHO/Marc Riboud
In these photographs, Marc Riboud documented the work of a team of WHO health professionals in the rural district of Sabzewar, Iran. At the request of the Iranian government, the team launched a pilot project to improve basic sanitation conditions and control insect-borne diseases.
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