Every year, voluntary doctors of MSF, nurses, logisticians, experts of the water-and-cleaning, administrators, and other medical professionals and not-doctors leave in more than 3,400 missions of the aid. They work together more to the personnel locally used of 16,000 to provide medical aid.

MSF has been active in Mali from 1992 and discloses that they plague to the people of Mali with the chronic emergencies of the health that include epidemics of the meningitis, the rage, the measles and the yellow fever. Because the exclusion of the medical care is a great problem, the primary center of the medical programs of MSF in Mali is to provide the treatment to which the majority needs it.

VR photographer Mickael Therer had admired MSF and he had always approached to him with the idea to introduce photography of VR like new means to emphasize his work. Soon after it was in his way to visit two operations of MSF in Mali: Goundam, in the north, to the west of Tombouctou, and the circle of Kangaba in the one of the south, near the border of Guinean.

Mali, in almost twice the size of Roofing tiles, is the greatest country of Africa of the west and is confined by seven other countries. With a life expectancy of 51,5 years, GDP 2000 by the capita of $797 (compared to Canada in $27.840) and one probability of almost 40% in the birth of not surviving age 40, Mali is one of the poorest countries of the world. Seventy three percents of the population win less than $1 per day. The program of development of United Nations aligns countries using the human index of the development, a formula that considers three aspects of the human development: longevity, knowledge, and a decent standard to live. Norway, Sweden and Canada finish off the HDI list; Mali aligns near the same bottom, 164 outside 173 countries.

Therer spent all the eight too short days in Mali and was hardly two to throw in each location but he was enough to leave an impression lasting, one of extensive poverty to a degree that is hard to include/understand. "I have seen pictures and the films but being there with MSF in isolated regions are a diverse vision that the cliches generally," he say.

In Kangaba, Therer followed implied equipment of MSF with the program of the malaria, a disease that is the assassin of number one of children, killing to some 3,000 per day in Africa the "equipment of MSF now they are dealing to patients of the malaria with a artemisinin-based drug - the method of last treatment as the old drugs (chloroquine and to fansidar) are lost their effectiveness," says Therer.

The economists consider that $10 to $12 billion to the year in productivity are lost in Africa due to malaria, and strikes to children under five age of hardest still have then not developed to immunity or the tolerance for the disease. More than 90 percents of dangerous cases for the life of the malaria they happen in children under age five in secondary-Saharan Africa. He considers fifth of his deaths.

The plague of the malaria in the children of Africa begins before they take as the parasites invade vital foods of the placenta and the sap, leading to the low weight and to the anemia of the birth. The repeated combats cause the severe anemia, hypoglycemia and lower infections of the respiratory zone. In the its worse one, the malaria infects the brain and the children undergo graspings, expire in a coma and die. If they survive they experience incapacities such as blindness, impedimientos of the speech and difficulties that learn.

Obvious, the launching of the photo was very different from the VR business generally of Therer, and it found the trip emotionally consuming. "which is very impressive is the will and the care of each one implied, of expats and locals within MSF. Which era of pulse is the positive attitude of the malianos that, under worse alive conditions, keep a smiling face, trusting a better man¢ana with energy prodigious." Then a photographer who creates a certain degree of emptiness is a part of the life and therefore of the integral at the moments that he captures, he hopes that their panoramas bring an interesting perspective to which the spectators can be related.

The people of Mali, whereas are confused comprehensible by the technology, handled to be related of a universal way: "it is not easy to explain what VR is when you are in a region with absolutely no access to the technology, you as soon as you must wait for the explosions of the laughter when they straight see this sudante white foreigner throwing until the sky or down the Earth. Better than of length the explanations, sharing laughter is of great relations of the building of the aid."

In Goundam, that lies in the entrance of the desert in the region of Sahel, the acute undernourishment is a recurrent problem, but "with the terrible undernourishment now the event in Niger, MSF sent a mission of the exploration to supervise the area for the severe undernourishment as no clear information on the situation came by", the information of Therer. Although Therer saw many serious cases of the severe undernourishment between infants around Goundam, the situation is not so calamitous because in Niger, in where about 30,000 children remain under threat.

Therer needed in its trip with a new camera, received the day before going away, there because it did not wish to risk being with as soon as a camera. Its equipment: D2x, D100, a lens of 10.5m m + a pair other lenses, nodal tripod and monopod 303sph and ninja or handheld occasionally; an Apple Powerbook and an external impulsion of the FW for the double reserve of the daily GBs of pics.

Its main technical obstacle was dynamic range. "it never threw in the best hours, when the light is smooth," he I say. "within the buildings the only light sources are the openings of the window, most of the inner panos they were thrown so between ISO 320 and 800 in the low speed when the outer light was generally 15 shutdowns above."

Therer hopes that their panoramas do it on Web site of MSF. "we have constructed two kiosks and we have printed until now some primers very great of the scenes for a exhibition in Luxembourg in where the government it is organizing one ' week of Mali '," we say Therer at the moment, that it adds that the reaction within MSF, that has photographic standard stops, we have been positive. One second phase glides to distribute the panoramas to a hearing pointed within the organization.

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