Mother and Children

The 3-month old boy in the striped blue shirt is named Peter. He is a typical case of neonatal sepsis. At about 3 days old he developed a fever and excessive crying, and eventually his head started swelling. He eventually went to the CURE hospital, where they first performed an ETV and then they installed a shunt when the ETV failed.

This image is from my photojournalism project covering Yale Professor Dr. Schiff’s 20-year quest to find the source of infant infections in the remote regions of Jinja, Uganda. Read the whole story in my blog post.

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