Global health messages - in pictures

A baby holds his card from Mutuelle, a national health insurance programme in Rwanda. Submitted by the Access Project and Rwanda Works, which works to build good health care management and health centres in Rwanda
Photograph: Flickr

Telling stories, sharing burdens: The Theni District Positive Network, in Tamil Nadu, south India, holds regular social events that provide relaxation and support to people who are living with HIV. Submitted by the HIV and AIDS Alliance Photograph: Flickr

Malaria control agents Sepiso Lubasi, 36, and Mubuka Matabataba, 38, register people who don't have mosquito nets and distribute nets and information on malaria to isolated settlements near the Lui river on Zambia’s borders. Submitted by Christian Aid Photograph: Flickr

The Community Housing Foundation's slum centres in India improve the conditions of slums by making them safer and healthier to live in, providing access to low-cost medicine, daycare centres and affordable credit and financial literacy training Photograph: Flickr

The HelpAge diabetes project in the Kyrgyz Republic improves the quality of life for older people living with diabetes. HelpAge is lobbying healthcare providers and governments to ensure people enjoy a healthy old age. The organisation wants non-communicable diseases like diabetes to be seen as key health priorities Photograph: Flickr

Staff from the Kempinski hotel, in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, take the Stop TB message on to the beach Photograph: Flickr

International Medical Corps founder Dr Robert Simon teaches Afghan medics surgery by candlelight. In many developing countries, the lack of skilled health workers and training can shatter health systems that are already fragile. International Medical Corps has established 57 clinics and 10 hospitals in rural Afghanistan Photograph: Flickr

Patients of Operation ASHA, in New Delhi, India, which provides 4 million slum dwellers with TB education and treatment to prevent multi-drug resistant TB. Globally, 8 million TB cases are detected each year
Photograph: Flickr

In India TB often leads to horrifying discrimination. TB patients may lose their jobs, putting entire families at risk of starvation. Submitted by OpASHA, New Delhi
Photograph: Flickr

A mother holds a nebuliser for her child: Asthma is rising around the world. In developed countries, asthma treatment via a nebuliser is easily accessible for home use. But in many developing countries mothers must walk miles with their children in asthmatic distress to queue to use the community nebuliser. Submitted by Global Links Photograph: Flickr

A mother and daughter wait at a HIV and Aids drop-in centre and clinic in Tirupati, India. Submitted by HIV and AIDS Alliance Photograph: Jenny Matthews/Flickr

Older people in Nshamba, Tanzania, march for their right to health on World Older People’s Day on 21 October last year. Health services for older people in Tanzania remain very poor despite a national health policy that provides free services to them. Submitted by HelpAge
Photograph: Christoph Gödan/ Kwa Wazee

Children attend a lesson on dental hygiene at an outreach centre run by Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal. In such a rural country, access to healthcare is hard to come by, with approximately one doctor per 10,000 people. Projects such as this outreach centre run in partnership with Childreach International are vital in providing healthcare to remote communities
Photograph: Martin Prihoda

Museyebo Mutaba, from the Lui river region in Zambia, fell seriously ill with malaria when heavily pregnant. A community volunteer from the Zambia Anglican Council (ZAC) insisted her family take her to hospital rather than a traditional healer, as was their intent. Museyebo and her baby now sleep beneath an insecticide-treated mosquito net provided by ZAC. Submitted by Christian Aid Photograph: Flickr

Honduras has the highest incidence of HIV/Aids in Central America, claiming more than 60% of reported cases even though it has just 17% of Central America's population. CHF International has been working closely with the public sector, local organisations and charities in Honduras since May 2008, to assist families affected by HIV and Aids Photograph: Flickr