A sick child plays with an aid worker's cross. The doctor believes the child may be an aids baby.


Katale camp Goma, Zaire: A sick child plays with an aid worker's cross. The child is not responding to his dysentery treatment , the doctor believes the child may be an aids baby . Before the war Rwanda had one of the highest incidence of aids in the world with 1 in 3 of the pregnant women in Kigali being HIV positive. These refugees are mainly Hutus who fl;ed Rwanda in fear of Tutsi reprisals after the Hutu Interahamwe massacred nealy a million Tutsis in the spring of 1994


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Location: Rwanda
Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
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