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Slideshow: Pakistan - Population under strain

Since 1998, Médecins Sans Frontières has provided medical care to Pakistanis and Afghan refugees suffering from the effects of armed conflicts, poor access to health care and natural disasters.

From above the size and scale of the Munda camp, located in Lower Dir of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province is clear.

© Jodi Bieber

Roharfaza, aged 23, washes a pot outside her tent at Summer Bagh Camp in Lower Dir in Pakistan.

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A young girl living in the Summer Bagh camp Lower Dir, Pakistan, greets Tasneem, aged 23, who is works in the Médecins Sans Frontières pharmacy located in the camp.

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An infant dozes on a stretcher in a fan-cooled tent at the Médecins Sans Frontières run cholera treatment centre at the Mardan Medical Complex, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

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Médecins Sans Frontières surgeon Lynette Dominguez and anaesthetist Margarita Quilala, both from the Philippines, attend to the wounds of a patient in the operating room of the Dargai Civil Hospital

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Médecins Sans Frontières doctor Jonathan Starke, from South Africa, examines Kareem, aged 17, who suffers from Tuberculosis at the inpatient department of the Dargai Civil Hospital

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Male nurses and a young patient and her attendant gather around in a corridor while a Ministry of Health doctor studies an X-ray of an injured child's chest, at the Dargai Civil Hospital

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An Médecins Sans Frontières midwife cuts the umbilical cord of a newborn baby minutes after her mother gave birth at Maternal and Child Healthcare centre located at the Dargai Civil Hospital

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An elderly man, an Afghani refugee, cradles his crying six year old granddaughter, at an Médecins Sans Frontières run Rural Health Centre in the town of Kuchlak in Pakistan's Balochistan province

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Three women from the town of Kuchlak in Pakistan's Balochistan province sit in the morning sun at the Médecins Sans Frontières run Maternal and Child Health centre which offers free medical services

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Two women shrouded in veils converse with a registrar at the Médecins Sans Frontières run Maternal and Child Health centre in Kuchlak, in Pakistan's Balochistan province

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Two tiny infants, twins Hamida and Ansa, are ten days old. But Ansa, on the right, is visibly smaller and severely malnourished.

© Jodi Bieber