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Ingrid Le Roux doctor in the township of Khayelithsa Southafrica

2007-09-25

The swedish doctor Ingrid Le Roux, doctor to the Nobel prizewinner Desmond Tutu, is also working with children and their mothers in the township of Khayelithsa, Capetown Southafrica . The children is often born with HIV disease and undernutrition. Ingrid is working with the organisation Philani, starting in 1978 when the townships was a real warzon. From that days she has developed her small doctors reception to a school and mother-care area,and the nurses are going around the area and visiting young families.

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