Kim In Soon, a six-year-old from the village of Wedong Nyun, in Southern Korea, was doing her first year in school; when a WHO assisted mobile leprosy team found her symptoms of leprosy.

Dr Edmond, country doctor in a small town in the Department of the Creuse, a rugged, highland area in the centre of France, came from a long line of country doctors: The Edmonds have been country doctors through father and son since the reign of Louis XIV. Dr Edmond's realm covered a radius of 20 kilometres around his home. In 40 years of practice (during which time he wore out ten cars, travelling a million kilometres on his rounds and attending some 150,000 patients), Dr Edmond saw public health problems shift from tuberculosis, venereal diseases, death in child birth and infant mortality to cancer.

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1958: Dr Luigi Mara spent the last four years in a relentless mosquito hunt all across malaria-ridden Kurdistan in Iraq. He managed to win the confidence of the Kurds, and was known among them as "Dr Malaria".

The Seishi Ryogo En, founded in 1937, is Japan's first "hospital, school and home" community centre for the rehabilitation of crippled children.

The disease profile of the world is rapidly evolving. This is especially true in low and middle income countries where chronic diseases are creating a double burden on top of infectious diseases. As these stories will show, even least developed countries are not immune to the growing epidemics of heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases. https://www.who.int/ncdnet/photo_stories/en/

The disease profile of the world is rapidly evolving. This is especially true in low and middle income countries where chronic diseases are creating a double burden on top of infectious diseases. As these stories will show, even least developed countries are not immune to the growing epidemics of heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases. https://www.who.int/ncdnet/photo_stories/en/

The disease profile of the world is rapidly evolving. This is especially true in low and middle income countries where chronic diseases are creating a double burden on top of infectious diseases. As these stories will show, even least developed countries are not immune to the growing epidemics of heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases. https://www.who.int/ncdnet/photo_stories/en/