19 year old Taranjot Singh who has birth defects poses at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. Taranjot suffers from cerebral palsy and has been at the centre for 5 years. Despite his d...

A child with birth defects is treated by a doctor at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of i...

A child with birth defects is treated at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of industrial po...

A portrait of Dr Pritpal Singh at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of industrial pollution...

A mother looks on as her child with birth defects is treated by a doctor at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born sufferin...

11 year old Nimrit Kaur who has birth defects sits with her grandmother in the waiting room of the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are...

4 year old Akriti who has cerebral palsy is strapped to a wall to help straighten his limbs at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are...

Children with birth defects are treated by doctors at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. The doctors apply pressure to their legs using their own weight. An increasing and ignored per...

11 year old Nimrit Kaur who has birth defects sits with her grandmother in the waiting room of the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are...

A child with birth defects sits with his mother in the waiting room of the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the...

A child with birth defects is treated by a doctor at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of i...

A mother talks with Dr Amol V Mogal about her daughter's treatment at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the...

5 year old Ravneet who has birth defects is treated by a doctor at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the sid...

A child with birth defects is treated at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of industrial po...

11 year old Nirmal Singh who has birth defects is held by his mother in the waiting room of the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are bei...

A child with birth defects is treated at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of industrial po...

4 year old Akriti who has cerebral palsy is strapped to a wall to help straighten his limbs at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are...

6 year old Mankarenbir Singh who has birth defects is treated by Dr Pritpal Singh at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born...

4 year old Akriti who has cerebral palsy cries as he is strapped to a wall to help straighten his limbs at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of c...

11 year old Harmanbir Kaur who has birth defects is treated at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side ef...

9 year old Sahil Boden who has cerebral palsy is strapped into a device that will help straighten his limbs at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage...

11 year old Nirmal Singh who has birth defects is held by his mother in the waiting room of the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are bei...

11 year old Nimrit Kaur who has birth defects sits with her grandmother in the waiting room of the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are...

A child with birth defects is treated by a doctor at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of i...

4 year old Akriti who has cerebral palsy cries as he is strapped to a wall to help straighten his limbs at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of c...

Dr Pritpal Singh listens to the voice of a patient who has birth defects at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born sufferin...

Patients with birth defects with their mothers in the waiting room of the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the...

6 year old Mankarenbir Singh who has birth defects is treated at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side...

A child with birth defects is treated by a doctor at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of i...

A child with birth defects is treated by a doctor at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effects of i...

A child with cerebral palsy is strapped to a wall to help straighten his limbs at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born su...

A child with birth defects is treated by Dr Pritpal Singh at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the side effe...

19 year old Taranjot Singh who has birth defects uses a computer which is showing his Facebook page at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. Taranjot suffers from cerebral palsy and has...

5 year old Ravneet who has birth defects is treated by a doctor at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are being born suffering the sid...

11 year old Harmanbir Kaur who has birth defects is treated with a paste applied to her back at the privately funded Baba Farid Centre in Faridkot. An increasing and ignored percentage of children are...

A man walks around using mineral rich black mud to treat his skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties f...

Men use mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for skin and rhe...

Men walk around in mineral rich black mud whilst another lies on the ground covered in the mud, to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral...

Men walk around using mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties fo...

Men use mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for skin and rhe...

A man uses mineral rich black mud to treat his skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for skin and rh...

One man walks around in mineral rich black mud whilst another lies on the ground covered in the mud, to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and min...

A man stands with a walking stick as he uses mineral rich black mud to treat his skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have...

A man uses mineral rich black mud and salt to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for...

Men use mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for skin and rhe...

Men use mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan, protecting themselves from the sun with an umbrella. The salt and mineral laden mud ar...

A man uses mineral rich black mud and salt to treat his skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for sk...

Men use mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for skin and rhe...

Men use mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for skin and rhe...

A man uses mineral rich black mud and salt to treat his skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for sk...

One man walks around in mineral rich black mud whilst another lies on the ground covered in the mud and then with salt, to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaija...

Men lie in mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for skin and...

Men apply mineral rich black mud to each other to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan, protecting themselves from the sun with an umbrella. The salt and mine...

Men use mineral rich black mud to treat their skin at Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. The salt and mineral laden mud are reputed to have healing properties for skin and rhe...

Dr. Ashok Aswani meditating at home. In 1973, Dr. Ashok Aswani established the Charlie Circle, a society founded to honour the legendary comic actor Charlie Chaplin. Every year members of the society...

A mentally ill man endures an exorcism by Mohammed Omar Faridi, a pir at the Shareef Dargah in New Delhi. Delhi is typical of many Indian cities in that it has very few trained psychiatrists and many...

A mentally ill man is examined by Mohammed Omar Faridi, a pir at the Shareef Dargah in New Delhi. Delhi is typical of many Indian cities in that it has very few trained psychiatrists and many people s...

A mentally ill man endures an exorcism by Mohammed Omar Faridi, a pir at the Shareef Dargah in New Delhi. Delhi is typical of many Indian cities in that it has very few trained psychiatrists and many...

A pir (Sufi holy man) exorcises a spirit from a woman at a shrine in Delhi. Delhi is typical of many Indian cities in that it has very few trained psychiatrists and many people still consult holy men...

Patients are treated by Mohammed Omar Faridi, a pir at the Shareef Dargah in New Delhi. Delhi is typical of many Indian cities in that it has very few trained psychiatrists and many people still consu...

A mentally ill man endures an exorcism by Mohammed Omar Faridi, a pir at the Shareef Dargah in New Delhi. Delhi is typical of many Indian cities in that it has very few trained psychiatrists and many...

Women at a botanical gardens in Nkhulambe village pose with local medicinal herbs. The women are HIV positive.

Miss Beatrice is a Curandeira who lives and works in her little studio by her home at the airport barrio. Mozambican Curandeiros are traditional healers, who cure all sorts of ailments from psychologi...

Miss Beatrice is a Curandeira who lives and works in her little studio by her home at the airport barrio. Mozambican Curandeiros are traditional healers, who cure all sorts of ailments from psychologi...

A Curandeiro from the "Ziones" group rests in the Indian Ocean after his daily spiritual session. Mozambican Curandeiros are traditional healers, who cure all sorts of ailments from psychological illn...

Rowan, a five-year-old autistic child, playing with his parents during a horseback expedition across Mongolia. Rowan, who has been nicknamed ^The Horse Boy^, embarked on a therapeutic journey of disco...

Journalist Tim Rayment enjoys a dish of sheep's innards with Rupert Issacson, a campaigning writer and former horse trainer, inside a ger (yurt) during an expedition across Mongolia. Rupert embarked o...

Rowan, a five-year-old autistic child, communicates with six-year-old Bodibilguunson, the son of a guide, during a horseback expedition across Mongolia. Rowan, who has been nicknamed ^The Horse Boy^,...

Rowan, a five-year-old autistic child, is cleaned by his parents after soiling his pants during a horseback expedition across Mongolia. Rowan, who has been nicknamed ^The Horse Boy^, embarked on a the...

Rowan, a five-year-old autistic child, riding a horse, accompanied by his parents, Kristin Neff and Rupert Issacson, during a horseback expedition across Mongolia. Rowan, who has been nicknamed ^The H...

Rowan, a five-year-old autistic child, communicates with six-year-old Bodibilguunson, the son of a guide, during a horseback expedition across Mongolia. Rowan, who has been nicknamed ^The Horse Boy^,...

Kristin Neff, a developmental psychologist, and Rupert Issacson, a campaigning writer and former horse trainer, with their five-year-old autistic son, Rowan, during an expedition across Mongolia. Rowa...

40 year old Senia Sava, who suffers from epilepsy, receives a traditional treatment of suction cups to relieve his back pain caused by flu. There is no doctor in Caraorman village, except a travelling...

Newspaper vendor and billboard headline reading: "HIV Herbs Must be Tested."

28 year old Doctor Rama is a mganga, or traditional healer, in a village near Dar Es Salaam. The fact that tens of albinos have been murdered in Northern Tanzania on the orders of witch doctors makes...

28 year old Doctor Rama is a mganga or traditional healer in a village near Dar Es Salaam. The fact that tens of albinos have been murdered in Northern Tanzania on the orders of witch doctors makes hi...

A man receives a petrol bath at the Naftalan Health Centre. The use of oil has proved especially beneficial for rheumatic and circulatory problems.

A man receives an oil treatment at the Naftalan Health Centre. The use of oil has proved especially beneficial for rheumatic and circulatory problems.

Mother of a pregnant woman prepares medicine from leaves to try to bring on her daugher's labour, in Freetown's Kroo Bay slum, which has the world's worst infant and maternal mortalitly rate. One in f...

A Curandeiro from the "Ziones" group purifies himself in the Indian Ocean during his daily spiritual session. Mozambican Curandeiros are traditional healers, who cure all sorts of ailments from psycho...

A market stall for Curandeiros at Xpamanine market. Mozambican Curandeiros are traditional healers, who cure all sorts of ailments from psychological illness to more serious physical diseases. They...

A Curandeiro from the "Ziones" group stands in the Indian Ocean after his daily spiritual session. Mozambican Curandeiros are traditional healers, who cure all sorts of ailments from psychological ill...

A man removes the reproductive organs from chickens for customers during market day in Yongle.

Traditional 'tanaka' is applied to a baby's face in Khat-Tu village. Tanaka is believed to be good for the skin and keep away germs and evil spirits. Many Burmese women and children wear tanaka, a nat...

A child with 'tanaka' on his face studies in a rural classroom. Tanaka is a natural sun-block made from the bark and wood of a tanaka tree.

Children with 'tanaka' on their face, study at a rural school. Tanaka is a natural sun-block made from the bark and wood of a tanaka tree.

Girl gathers wild herbs to treat diarrhoea.

A mother brings two of her children to the Save the Children Fund's preschool at Oak Tha Kan village, Shan State. The children have 'tanaka' on their face, a natural sun-block made from the bark and w...

Kim receiving a Japanese Shiatsu massage from Berni Heaney at the Back Rub Centre, Neal's Yard, Covent Garden, London.

Kim receiving a Japanese Shiatsu massage from Berni Heaney at the Back Rub Centre, Neal's Yard, Covent Garden, London.