A medication containing paracetamol and the opioid painkiller tramadol for sale in a neighbourhood convenience store.

An itinerant medicine peddler's wares on display in a market in Lome.

Boxes of Ibucap, labelled as containing ibuprofen, paracetamol and caffeine in the hands of an itinerant medicine peddler on a street in Lome.

Grace Kudzu carries syringes, hypodermic needles and ampoules of the opioid painkiller tramadol and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory ketoprofen with her at all times as she suffers from sickle cell dise...

In pain and overdue for a dose, Grace Kudzu (35) prepares to inject herself with 100mg of tramadol in the front seat of a friend's car. She explains that she prefers to be seen to by a medical profess...

In pain and overdue for a dose, Grace Kudzu (35) prepares to inject herself with 100mg of tramadol in the front seat of a friend's car. She explains that she prefers to be seen to by a medical profess...

In pain and overdue for a dose, Grace Kudzu (35) prepares to inject herself with 100mg of tramadol in the front seat of a friend's car. She explains that she prefers to be seen to by a medical profess...

A used syringe and empty ampoule of the opioid painkiller tramadol at the infirmary of Lucas Kpogli.

Lucas Kpogli administering a 100mg dose of tramadol, an opioid painkiller, to Grace Kudzu at his infirmary. Grace suffers from sickle cell disease, during a 'sickle cell crises', which in Grace's case...

Lucas Kpogli administering a 100mg dose of tramadol, an opioid painkiller, to Grace Kudzu at his infirmary. Grace suffers from sickle cell disease, during a 'sickle cell crises', which in Grace's case...

Grace Kudzu (35) pointing out the price tag (Approx. GBP 5.11) on a box of five 100mg ampoules of tramadol as she cites the financial burden borne by sufferers of sickle cell disease, a hereditary con...

A tramadol capsule with a stated dosage of 120mg, a type commonly found on the streets, in the hands of a roadside coffee seller. Some drinks vendors sell the opioid painkiller in addition to beverage...

A table with syringe, medication, a fetal stethoscope, used MUAC (measuring mid-upper arm circumference) band, broken vial, stethoscope, notebook, surgical instruments in a kidney dish and a pipette b...

The nutritional health officer's (Rufin) table at the Gbandengue clinic. On the table is a health register and notebook, stethoscope, CAR flag, official stamp with ink and pens and a photograph of Sel...

In a Primary Health Centre in Kutapalong Rohingya refugee camp 18, volunteer Nur-E-Jannat (18) helps Najuna and her young family receive the treatment needed, by making sure that their immunisations a...

Omogo Chinelo Ruth, who is a pregnant, takes sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (Fansidar), a malaria treatment, before her antenatal care programme at the Ngbo Primary Health Care Clinic.

Omogo Chinelo Ruth, who is a pregnant, takes sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (Fansidar), a malaria treatment, before her antenatal care programme at the Ngbo Primary Health Care Clinic.

Omogo Chinelo Ruth, who is a pregnant, is given sulfadoxine pyrimethamine, a malaria treatment, by nurse Ani Chidiebere before her antenatal care programme at the Ngbo Primary Health Care Clinic.

A display of sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (Fansidar), a malaria treatment, at the Ngbo Primary Health Care Clinic.

Dy Sam Art (50) holding Mefloquine malaria treatment medicine.

Sushil Kadam, a surveillance investigator from G South Ward, distributes anti-malaria medicines to patients in the Kamagarnagr slums.

Volunteers or Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) conduct a malaria awareness program and distribute medicines.

Avinash Singh, a surveillance investigator from G South Ward, collects blood samples and distributes medicine in the community in the Prakash Mill compound.

Avinash Singh, a surveillance investigator from G South Ward, collects blood samples and distributes medicine in the community in the Prakash Mill compound.

Scientists Anne and Jos tranquillise a potto found in the rainforest. The potto (Perodicticus potto) is a slow-moving African strepsirrhine primate from the Lorisidae family.

Avinash Singh, a surveillance investigator from G South Ward, collects blood samples and distributes medicine in the community in the Prakash Mill compound.

Avinash Singh, a surveillance investigator from G South Ward, collects blood samples and distributes medicine in the community in the Prakash Mill compound.

Promad Kumar, who works as a watchman in a construction site, gets medicine during a check up and blood test for dengue fever and malaria at the Jijamatanagar RCH health post in Worli by Dr Prajyot Ch...

Volunteers or Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) distribute anti-malaria medicines.

Volunteers or Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) distribute anti-malaria medicines.

A female mannequin advertises Viagra outside a pharmacy.

A man working in a sterile lab at a Papain producer fills sacks with powdered Papain. Papain is present in papaya and is produced from the latex of the papaya fruit which is collected by making insici...

A worker on a plantation producing Papain pours latex collected from papaya fruits onto plastic sheets in order to dry it. Papain is present in papaya and is produced from the latex of the papaya frui...

A worker on a plantation producing Papain makes incisions into the fruits as they hang on a tree. Papain is present in papaya and is produced from the latex of the papaya fruit which is collected by m...

A worker on a plantation producing Papain makes incisions into the fruits as they hang on a tree. Papain is present in papaya and is produced from the latex of the papaya fruit which is collected by m...

A worker on a plantation producing Papain. Papain is present in papaya and is produced from the latex of the papaya fruit which is collected by making insicions in the fruit, where it may either dry o...

Andy taking his daily methadone prescription at a local chemist. Andy has cerebal palsy and has struggled with drug addiction and the many associated problems for most of his adult life.

A woman buys medicines from a small stall on a barge sailing up the Congo River. Some passengers, or the wives of crew members, recouping their travel expenses or earn a living peddling wares to fishe...

A medical worker feels the forehead of a patient at a small satellite clinic.

A baby is given an oral polio vaccination by a medical worker at a small clinic.

A medical worker takes an elderly patient's blood pressure at a small satellite clinic.

A medical worker gives a toddler an injection at a small satellite clinic.

Medical staff give Sathi a contraceptive injection at the Health and Family Planning Centre.

Medical staff give Fatema Begum a contraceptive injection at the Health and Family Planning Centre.

Medical staff give Rupeya Begum a contraceptive injection at the Health and Family Planning Centre.

A medical worker performs a pregnancy test on Kohinur Begum at a small satellite clinic.

A medical worker performs a pregnancy test on Kohinur Begum at a small satellite clinic.

Fatema Tuz Johora (30), beside a toilet outside her home in the Rosider tek slum, she says has been suffering from diarrhoea for seven days and has spent 600-700 Taka (5.50 - 6.50 GBP) on medicine.

Medicine and equipment in the decrepit Tudmur hospital, the only functioning hospital in the region.

Injured soldiers, just arrived from the frontline 150km away, are treated in a ward in the decrepit Tudmur hospital, the only functioning hospital in the region.

An SDF fighter who had been injured in a mine explosion in Raqqa sleeps in his bed at a military hospital.

SDF fighters, injured in various battles during the fight against ISIS, recuperate at a military hospital.

Xicana indigenous artist and activist Felicia Montes prepares herbal medicines at a medicine circle in which women get together and make herbal medicines as well as native-based foods.

A young South Sudanese refugee woman who was hurt when she tried to break up a fight between two people has a cut treated in the outpatient's clinic at the MSF health centre in Bidibidi.

A South Sudanese refugee child is given an oral vaccination from a medic at the Imvepi reception centre.

A South Sudanese refugee woman grimaces as she receives a vaccination from a medic at the Imvepi reception centre.

Families whose children are affected by Nodding Syndrome but who could not be cared for in a health centre come to collect the drugs distributed by the Ugandan government.

Florence Arringo, a traditional doctor. At the beginning of the Nodding Syndrome outbreak, many people came to see her. But seeing that traditional medicine could do nothing, people turned away.''The...

Vicky Aparo (17) rests on her bed in a dormitory for patients affected by Nodding Syndrome in the Kitgum Hospital. The hospital's lack of money, food and medicine explains why the beds are not occupie...

Kenneth Ouma (13) who suffers from Nodding Syndrome. He runs tirelessly around the family compound, laughing and clapping his hands. He does not like to wear clothes and gets rid of his trousers regul...

Walter Ojok (14), sitting naked in the doorway of the kitchen (left). He suffers from Nodding Syndrome and hates wearing clothes. He is the second sibling of five girls and four boys but he is the onl...

In the shade of a tree medical workers, staffing a weekly mobile clinic, carry out consultations with patients.

Mahouts and vets try to keep the sick baby elephant Mi Chaw alive with intravenous drips and medications in her last hours at Thayatsan elephant camp. Just over three weeks earlier a group of bamboo c...

A consultation in the pre-natal ward of the Old Fangak

To cremate the body, a villager pours gasoline over the rotten carcass of a wild elephant that had been killed and skinned by poachers in the forest reserve. Neighbouring China has an increasing appet...

Daoud, a community worker from the nearby health centre, vaccinates children against polio. He gets 20,000 CFA (GBP 26.00) per month plus a bonus of 2.5 (GBP 0.03) per day, during screening and mass v...

A man holds up a novelty box containing Diazepam, a drug used to combat anxiety, attached to a telephone box as demonstrators on the ''Put it to the People'' march made their way through central Londo...

A man holds up a novelty box containing Oxazepam, a drug used to combat anxiety, outside the Cabinet Office on Whitehall as demonstrators on the ''Put it to the People'' march made their way through c...

Marijuana buds.

Marijuana buds.

Plastic containers with marijuana buds of different varieties.

Plastic containers with marijuana buds of different varieties.

Plastic containers with marijuana buds of different varieties.

Plastic containers with marijuana buds of different varieties.

Plastic containers with marijuana buds of different varieties.

Plastic containers with marijuana buds of different varieties.

Marijuana buds.

An installation for the home cultivation of cannabis.

An installation for the home cultivation of cannabis.

A vaporiser for consuming cannabis.

American made chocolate bars containing THC derived from cannabis.

Spanish pharmaceutical and herbal products derived from cannabis.

Marijuana grown at the facility run by Carola Perez, President of the Spanish Medicinal Cannabis Observatory,. She has undergone eleven operations since suffering a serious coccyx injury in her childh...

Marijuana grown at the facility run by Carola Perez, President of the Spanish Medicinal Cannabis Observatory,. She has undergone eleven operations since suffering a serious coccyx injury in her childh...

Marijuana grown at the facility run by Carola Perez, President of the Spanish Medicinal Cannabis Observatory,. She has undergone eleven operations since suffering a serious coccyx injury in her childh...

Carola Perez, President of the Spanish Observatory of Medicinal Cannabis, shows the scars derived from the eleven operations she has undergone since suffering a serious coccyx injury in her childhood.

Carola Perez, President of the Spanish Medicinal Cannabis Observatory, using a vaporiser to inhale medical cannabis for therapeutic use at her cannabis cultivation facility. She has undergone eleven o...

Carola Perez, President of the Spanish Medicinal Cannabis Observatory, at her cannabis cultivation facility. She has undergone eleven operations since suffering a serious coccyx injury in her childhoo...

Carola Perez, President of the Spanish Medicinal Cannabis Observatory, at her cannabis cultivation facility. She has undergone eleven operations since suffering a serious coccyx injury in her childhoo...

Carola Perez, President of the Spanish Medicinal Cannabis Observatory, at her cannabis cultivation facility. She has undergone eleven operations since suffering a serious coccyx injury in her childhoo...