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Picturing health: dengue in Vietnam published in The Lancet

General Research

Earlier this year, OUCRU Photographer in Residence Pearl Gan conducted a project focusing on dengue. In that project, she took photos of dengue patients and health care workers at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She also took photos of dengue patients in their homes and at research sites in the city. This project was funded by the Wellcome Trust, and this week selected photos from that project have been published in The Lancet as a photo story.

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Read more (Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health)

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