In Rio’s Complexo do Alemão, a group of favelas rife with violence from drug traffickers and police, but with no access to emergency medical services, MSF ran a project from 2007 to 2009. Staff gave 19,000 medical consultations and made 650 emergency rescues. (Photo: Brazil 2009 © David Prichard)Read more.

In Rio’s Complexo do Alemão, a group of favelas rife with violence from drug traffickers and police, but with no access to emergency medical services, MSF ran a project from 2007 to 2009. Staff gave 19,000 medical consultations and made 650 emergency rescues.
(Photo: Brazil 2009 © David Prichard)
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    Having been here in 2006, it was clear that something needed...MSF something was done.
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