Samiullah is 15 years old and works as a dancing boy in Mazar e Sharif in northern Afghanistan. He is kept in the city with his ”teacher” because his owner lives in a strictly Taliban controlled area, and they are strongly against bacha bazi. Mazar e Sharif, 20110311 Bacha Bazi is sexual slavery and child prostitution in which prepubescent and adolescent boys are sold to wealthy or powerful men for entertainment and sexual activities. This business thrives in Afghanistan, where many men keep the boys as status symbols. Some of the individuals involved report being forced into sex. The authorities are attempting to crack down on the practice but many doubt it will be effective since many of the men involved are powerful and well-armed former commanders.

Khan, who is Samiullah’s owner, dresses him like a girl as part of the tradition.

Dressing up as a girl.

Dressing up as a girl.

Performing.

Samiullah and his teacher.

Sexual jokes are constantly being shouted out by the men during the show.

Last time Samiullah performed he was dancing for 10 hours at a wedding.

Samiullah and the teacher.

Gennady, 49 years old. Diagnosis: multidrug-resistant TB and HIV. Donetsk TB dispensary, December 23rd, 2010. From the words of his wife: He worked at the mine. In 2007 pulmonary tuberculosis was discovered. The treatment was prescribed, felt himself better. He didn’t finish the treatment and started to drink alcohol. In 2010, the acute abdominal pain appeared. The numerous ulcers have formed in the bowels, a diagnosis - intestinal tuberculosis. Doctors have demanded to transport the patient to a TB hospital or home immediately. He was transported by taxi. After another operation all the sutures on his stomach diverged because of multiple ulcers. The doctors told that he could probably live just a couple of days, the family decided to take the dying man home. He was walking around the apartment and brawling during the whole month with an open wound on his stomach. The wife had to beg doctors to take him to the hospital. Died December 23, 2010, this photo has been made two hours before his death. One in three people in the world is infected with TB bacteria. Only when the bacteria become active do people become ill with TB. Bacteria become active as a result of anything that can reduce the person’s immunity, such as HIV, advancing age, or some medical conditions.

X-ray room, Zhdanovskaya correctional colony № 3, 03 February 2011.

X-ray room, Zhdanovskaya correctional colony № 3, 03 February 2011.

Isolation ward in TB department. Donetsky investigatory isolation ward, February 02, 2011.

Treatment room. Starozburevskaya correctional colony № 7, July 26th,2011.

Distribution of medication. Zdanovsky penal colony №3. February 03, 2011.

Michael, 63 years old. Diagnosis: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Kherson TB hospital, July 19th, 2011. From the words of the patient: worked as a bricklayer on a construction site. After surgery on the stomach, he went for the check to a doctor, who found spots in the lungs,after this he was sent immediately to the clinic. He has been treating with the intervals of 2-3 years since 1983. The reaction of his organism becomes acute every autumn, so he always stays in hospital for the prevention. Earlier, in USSR times the food was very good, but nowadays he buys food by himself. 4 years ago his wife died, and then he had a stroke. He started to walk using the stick and had problems with speech. Son buys all the medications and products.

Alexander, 54 years old, mentally sick. Diagnosis: tuberculosis. Novotroitsk TB dispensary, July 25, 2011. The medical staff story: He was severely beaten, lost memories. We could not find his relatives. He is anxious and aggressive. When TB treatment is over, he would be send to an asylum. The patientÕs story:My name is Bukarev Alexander Michailovitch. I was born in 1957 and now I am living in Cherson. I am married and have two children

Gennadiy, 42 years old. Diagnosis: multidrug-resistant TB HIV positive. Kherson TB Dispensary, September 14th, 2011. From the words of the patient: was suffering from tuberculosis for 6 years, didn’t have any idea how he became ill. He worked on a fishing vessel in Kamchatka. He returned after receiving a letter from his mother in which she informed that she was dying. Couldn’t find a job and began to drink alcohol. He got to the hospital by calling to emergency. Diagnosis: cirrhosis of the liver. From his ​​mother's words: was selling things from the house and gathering bottles to buy medicine and food for her son, who couldn’t rise from the bed over the last few weeks. Died October 12th, 2011.

Konstantin, nickname "Salman", 42 years old. Diagnosis: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis with HIV. Kherson TB Dispensary, August 04th, 2011. As a child he was beaten by his stepfather, tried to shoot himself, but the bullet had passed through,leaving a blind right eye. After resuscitation, he began to use drugs. He has been using drugs for more than 25 years. The dose reached to 5 cubes of opium and 2 cubes of amphetamine. He delivered the poppy from Western Ukraine. He was serving his sentence only. In the prison he stopped to use drugs. In the second year of being there the polio appeared. X-rays were taken and the diagnosis was tuberculosis. In tuberculosis colony ones began to make TB drugs injections, he has an opinion that because of the incompatibility of HIV and TB drugs his feet began to refuse. He was treated for four month. His mother was coming every evening, bringing food and medicine. He died August 24, 2011.

Nikolay, 66 years old. Diagnosis: tuberculosis. Novozburevsky TB Dispensary, August 16th, 2011. From the words of the patient: used to work as a combiner in Kazakhstan. He has no relatives and children. He used to live in a nursing home, during the medical examination was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Transferred to the dispensary. He broke his leg and could not get up. All the belongings and documents have disappeared from the ward. He is not able to receive a pension. He is treated for a second time. He considers a nursing house as a concentration camp, afraids to go back.

Gennadiy, 42 years old. Diagnosis: multidrug-resistant TB HIV positive. Kherson TB Dispensary, September 14th, 2011. From the words of the patient: was suffering from tuberculosis for 6 years, didn’t have any idea how he became ill. He worked on a fishing vessel in Kamchatka. He returned after receiving a letter from his mother in which she informed that she was dying. Couldn’t find a job and began to drink alcohol. He got to the hospital by calling to emergency. Diagnosis: cirrhosis of the liver. From his ​​mother's words: was selling things from the house and gathering bottles to buy medicine and food for her son, who couldn’t rise from the bed over the last few weeks. Died October 12th, 2011.

Messico - Tabasco 2011 On the freight train that drive along the south states of Mexico towars north regions, every years thousands of central -american illegal migrants, travel on the wagon roofs. risking so their life for reach the border with de Unided States.

Mexico - Baja California-Mexicali 2011 A group of; immigrants deported from the USA arrive in the "; Migrant Hotel".In the border city of Mexicali; there is an abbandoned hotel; that a group of activist and voluntiers trasformed in a shelter and refuge for immigrants deported from the USA

Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, Mexico, 2011 - This little town is an important railway junction. Thousands of migrants travelling on the freight train pass here. They can have a rest along the streets before restarting the trip towards North Mexico.

Mexicali, August 2011 - Hotel Migrante - Here a group of deportees and migrant rights activists have taken over an old, abandoned hotel, formerly the Hotel Centenario (the Hundred Year Hotel). They've renamed it the Hotel Migrante, or the Migrant Hotel. Just a block from the border crossing, it gives people deported from the United States a place to sleep and food to eat for a few days before they go home, or try to cross the border again - On the chest of a deportee, guest of the Hotel Migrante, the image of the Santa Muerte (the Holy Death), a religious-pagan image very popular among Mexican working class people

Arriaga (Chiapas), April 2011 - The Suchiate river that marks the southwesternmost part of the border between Mexico and Guatemala. Every day, thousands of people cross this natural border without legal permission as irregular migrants and travel on the roof of freight trains risking their life to reach as soon as possible the border with United States and try to cross it

Messico - Veracruz 2011 A woman,illegal migrant, coming from Honduras travels on the freight train that crosses the State of Veracruz, with her little three-year-old girl.

Mexico -Baja California- Jacumè At the border area, in the horizon the wall that divides Mexico from the United States could be seen. This area of the South of California is one of the places used by migrants to cross the border.

Messico - Veracruz 2011 Some migrants take a rest, wash themselves, and find safe shelter at a church in the outskirts of the city of Coatzacoalcos. They await for the next train to pass by.