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Photojournal: Burden of malaria
Forced from home

Nineteen years of war with rebels of the Lord�s Resistance Army has left 1.6 million internally displaced people (IDPs), suffering physical and psychological scars as well as abject poverty.

On average an IDP rarely makes more than 1,500 shillings a day � a bit less than a dollar.

They, too, find it hard to afford a mosquito net or to reach a clinic for treatment � like this woman, seen through a curtain screen, who struggled to ensure her young child got medical attention.

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