UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman visits patients at the Budiriro Health Centre for Cholera in Harare, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. Veneman toured a hospital in a crowded Harare neighborhood where her organization has provided funds and medicine to treat cholera victims. The hospital had been overwhelmed with patients in recent months. The crowding has lessened, but Veneman says that does not mean the cholera epidemic that has swept the country is slowing.
A baby suffering from cholera is seen, as UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman visits the Budiriro Health Centre for Cholera in Harare, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. Veneman toured a hospital in a crowded Harare neighborhood where her organization has provided funds and medicine to treat cholera victims.
A man pushes a wheelbarrow containing relief food from a distribution centre in Chirumanzi, 250 km (155 miles) southeast of Harare, January 15, 2009. An estimated five million Zimbabweans, about 40 percent of the population, are surviving on food aid. Donors expect that number to grow, but they are also diverting money from food aid to fight a cholera epidemic that has already killed over 2,100 people and their appeals for more funding are not being met in full. Picture taken January 15, 2009.
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