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Winner
Tomas van Houtryve
VII Photo Agency

"BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF 21ST CENTURY COMMUNISM"

Finalist
Javier Arcenillas
Freelance

"SICARIOS"

Finalist
Mary F. Calvert
ZUMA Press

"POLIO'S LINE IN THE SAND"

Finalist
Ed Ou
Getty Images

"THE YOUTH OF AN UNFINISHED REVOLUTION"

Finalist
Mary F. Calvert
ZUMA Press


"POLIO'S LINE IN THE SAND"

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Under flashlight, Mohamad Hamidan, Village Head of R'Lemo, Abdurrahaman Mohammad-Head of Ward, and Sabiu Abdulkarim read numbers from the day's immunization campaign in the village of R'Lemo. The whole nieghborhood showed up for an evening "majigi" to learn about polio. A television is set up in a neighborhood in Kano, during a "majigi" or mobile cinema to show government programs touting the polio immunization campaigns.

Religious zealotry and misinformation have coerced villagers in the Muslim north of Nigeria into refusing polio vaccinations and led to the reemergence of polio only a few years after it nearly joined smallpox on the CDC’s list of eradicated diseases.