Honourable mentions in our photo competition
We are delighted to announce the photos that received honourable mentions in our competition.
Photos were selected for demonstrating diverse contexts from all regions of the world, representing different types of populations and settings. The photos were selected for highlighting men and women actively on the frontlines of service delivery, whether in the community of facility-based, or for highlighting the collaborative efforts linking women and men in changing health systems.
Photographer: Polly Walker
Title: No na trabadja pa no tabanca (we are working for our village); Traditional Birth Attendants pose after newborn training in Guinea Bissau.
Location: Buba, Quinara region, Guinea Bissau
Photographer: Grace Wilentz
Title: Women of Many Generations (pictured in front of posters displaying information on gender-based violence and related services)
Location: Centro de Investigación, Educación y Servicios (CIES), El Alto, Bolivia
Photographer: Ralalicia Limato
Title: Village health volunteers (Kaders) are doing registration and data recording of a mother and a child in Posyandu (integrated health post)
Location: Posyandu in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia
Photographer: LVCT Health
Title: Access for all: Reaching the hard to reach, nomadic, young and old with HIV testing services in Kenya.
Location: Eremit Village, Kajiado, Kenya
Photographer: Chamroeun Som
Title: Nursing Equality Evolves In Cambodia
Location: Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Photographer: Foglabenchi Lily Haritu
Title: Focus Group of Rural Indian Men Brainstorming on Spousal Communication and Family Planning Decision-making Strategies
Location: Ujjain Village, Madhya Pradesh, India
Photographer: Amy Iftekhar
Title: Waiting for Care in Northern Nigeria
Location: Outside Maiduguri, Nigeria
Photographer: David Musoke, FHS young researcher
Title: Women take lead in a drama session on health promotion in rural Uganda
Location: Wakiso district, Ssisa subcounty, Bulwanyi parish, Uganda
Photographer: Htet Nay Lin Oo
Title: Me and my project motorbike – A nursing officer arriving at district office on the project motorbike to help review progress on improving maternal and child health
Location: Kibuku District Health Office, Kibuku District, Uganda
Photographer: Bhargav Shandilya
Title: A Teenage Single Mother and Community Health Worker: An Urban Story
Location: Bangalore, India
Photographer: Amref Health Africa, staff photographer
Title: Changing roles: Women helping women to ensure their babies’ health and nutritional status. Women are no longer the passive recipients of health care in Africa, and are now the agents of empowerment.
Location: South Omo, Ethiopia
Photographer: Amref Health Africa, staff photographer
Title: Taking charge of destiny: As well as actively participating in the health workforce, women in Africa are being empowered and are happy to continuously monitor their own and their children’s health and nutritional status, as opposed to seeking medical attention in times of ailment only.
Location: Kitgum, Uganda
Photographer: Shibaji Bose – FHS India
Title: My lens my voice. Minority community woman – who rarely ventures out – learns to use a camera during a Photo Voice fortnightly group meet
Location: Dakhshin Durgapur village of Patharpratima Block in the Indian Sundarbans
Photographer: Carol Bales, CapacityPlus and IntraHealth International
Title: Future Obstetric Nurse?
Location: Kumasi, Ghana
Photographers: Katherine Lin & Anita Thurakal
Title: I’m a feminist because…
Location: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
