Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Employees from the Emergency Management Agency of Darkhan-Uul province disinfect streets in Darkhan soum. (A soum is a Mongolian administrative division within the provinces, similar to a district or county.) Employees will continue to disinfect public roads in Darkhan weekly through the end of April.

Photo by Tegshdelger Batbayar

Chihuahua, Mexico

Hand-washing stations started popping up in downtown Chihuahua in early March. The stations, distributed by the municipal government of the capital city, come with step-by-step instructions on hand-washing practices to kill germs and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Photo by Lilette A. Contreras

Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Archer Paulain, right, washes his hands before entering COMPAS supermarket in Pétion-Ville, Haiti. The supermarket provides foam soap and water to encourage customers to wash their hands and prevent, as much as possible, contamination of other customers, employees and products, explains Rolandy Seide, the store manager.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi province, Mongolia

Workers from the Mayor’s Office load an abandoned car frame onto a truck in Dalanzadgad, the capital of Umnugovi province. Baatar Janchiv, head of the Mayor’s Office, says they have been spraying public spaces with chemical cleaners since the spread of the coronavirus in neighboring China. The workers also pick up and disinfect garbage, like this car.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsogkhuu

Zvishavane, Zimbabwe

Trishias Manhivi, councilor for Zimbabwe’s Mhototi ward, washes her hands during a meeting of local leaders in rural Zvishavane. They discussed the new coronavirus, planned the way forward for their community – and busted myths: Information spread on WhatsApp had led some to believe their communities were immune from the virus.

Photo by Vimbai Chinembiri

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jonel Saint Jean washes his hands at a public tap in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The mayor’s office has installed about 40 water towers and nearly 1,000 water buckets at key points in the capital to encourage hand-washing and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Dalanzadgad-Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Munkhbaatar Sukhee, a ticket agent at the Dalanzadgad-Bayandalai checkpoint in Mongolia’s Umnugovi province, registers vehicles and gives each driver information on coronavirus prevention.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsogkhuu

Harare, Zimbabwe

Violet Muvandiri sprays disinfectant at a Market Square bus terminal in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Harare City Council says the city is disinfecting bus terminals as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus and to raise awareness of the seriousness of the disease and how to prevent it.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Urtnasan Orolzod performs a weekly cleaning of the 34th apartment building in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Mongolian Ministry of Health recommended all families and organizations clean their homes and offices with water and disinfectant to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur

Erdenet, Orkhon province, Mongolia

Erdenechimeg Oldokh, an Erdenet City Landscaping Office employee, washes and disinfects fences in the city center on Trade Union Street in response to the spread of coronavirus.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnokhoi

Erdenet, Orkhon province, Mongolia

Employees from the National Emergency Management Agency disinfect office buildings and roads in Erdenet, a city in Mongolia’s Orkhon province, due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnokhoi

Wakiso, Uganda

Nakku Zaina, a clinical officer at Wakiso Health Centre IV, gives a polio vaccine to Nalubega Nina, 1, as her mother Nakirinya Roset looks on. The service is part of a nation-wide vaccination program to immunize children against infectious diseases.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

New Delhi, India

Dr. Mohammad Saleem treats Jamsheed Rasool at his private clinic in New Delhi, India. Saleem says he tries his best to help people in whichever way possible. Many of his patients, including Rasool, consider him a respected figure in the community and say that he doesn’t overcharge them for services and medicine.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Julie Mombi lies on the exam bed while nurse Jucain Malisawa inserts a birth control implant in her upper arm at Tropical health center located 5 kilometers (3 miles) away from Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. Malisawa is part of an international organization called DKT, which provides family planning methods in clinics in several cities in DRC.

Photo by Zita Amwanga

Lusaka, Zambia

Rosalia Phiri holds her nine-month-old baby Joshua as he receives a measles vaccine at a clinic set up at the Shine charity in Lusaka, Zambia. Every six months, government health workers go around communities here, immunizing eligible children and providing other health services.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Lusaka, Zambia

Patson Sakala, an audiology technician, conducts an ear check-up on an apprehensive child at the Olympic Youth Development Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. The Beit CURE Hospital, where Sakala works, offers free community ear check-ups in different communities around the city every week.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Bardiya District, Nepal

Sunita Chaudhary, 80, is helped onto a bicycle by her husband Prabhu Chaudhary, 82, as they head to a hospital checkup for her in Nepal’s Bardiya District. Since there are no bus lines running from their village to the hospital, biking is the couple’s best option.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Surkhet District, Nepal

Manikala Buda (pink shirt) and her children Shiva Buda, 3, and Pabitra Buda, 6, receive treatment from Kastura Buda, a traditional healer, in Matela, a village development committee in Nepal’s Surkhet District. People often go to faith healers, known as Dhami in Nepali, when they believe they are suffering from negative energy, an ailment which can’t be cured by other forms of medicine.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Harare, Zimbabwe

Joshua Chigwida, also known as Sekuru Nehanda, gives his client, Admire Chimunyu, treatments for a backache at his stall in Harare’s city center in Zimbabwe. Chigwida has provided herbal medicine to his clients in the city center for over five years. His clients are often commuter omnibus drivers and conductors who operate close by.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Mexico City, Mexico

Francisco Tecoatl, 40, performs a ritual cleansing with smoke and herbs in Mexico City’s Plazuela del Marqués. Tecoatl is a member of Calpulli Ze Mazatl, a civil society organization that preserves and promotes Aztec cultural traditions. Every Thursday to Sunday for the last 20 years, they have performed indigenous Aztec dances and rituals in alternating locations. After the dance ends, they offer cleansings to people passing by.

Photo by Mar García

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Benito Ruiz Alvarez, a traditional doctor, or “i´lol” in the Tsotstil language, performs a healing for Josefa López Santis in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a city in Mexico’s Chiapas state. Ruiz Alvarez uses prayers, plants, candles, stones, incense and a traditional drink called posh as part of the ceremony. The facility is owned by the Organización de Médicos Indígenas del Estado de Chiapas, an organization of doctors and midwives with Tsotsil ancestry who preserve medicinal traditions, including midwifery, botany and bone setting.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

José Luis Flores Velasco, a physiotherapist, gives a massage to Mariana Cameras at an alternative medicine fair in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. Fair participants came to promote alternative therapies, like reiki, therapeutic massages, biomagnetism and magnets, and consuming natural products.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Rie Watanabe (left), a Japanese violinist based in San Cristóbal de las Casas and Arabella Siles, a sound artist and therapist who uses gongs, bowls, drums and other instruments, perform their piece “Destejer El Silencio” at the Iglesia del Carmen, a church in San Cristóbal de las Casas. Siles read her own poetry while Watanabe played the violin. The performance took place during La Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz, or Spring and Peace Fair.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Fermathe, Haiti

Carine Emile, a traditional healer in Fermathe, Haiti, treats Maxo Paulain, a mechanic, for stomach discomfort that he says occurred while he was lifting metal car parts. She prepares a combination of palma christi oil, laundry soap and a traditional Haitian rum called Clairin to rub onto Paulain’s body while saying prayers. Emile has been practicing as a traditional healer since she was 20 years old.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

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Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Chihuahua, Mexico

Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi province, Mongolia

Zvishavane, Zimbabwe

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Dalanzadgad-Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Harare, Zimbabwe

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Erdenet, Orkhon province, Mongolia

Erdenet, Orkhon province, Mongolia

Wakiso, Uganda

New Delhi, India

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Lusaka, Zambia

Lusaka, Zambia

Bardiya District, Nepal

Surkhet District, Nepal

Harare, Zimbabwe

Mexico City, Mexico

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Fermathe, Haiti