Muskan

Peshawar, Pakistan

Suspected Drug-resistant Diphtheria

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Muskan’s family, who fled Afghanistan generations ago, still live in a refugee settlement in Pakistan. The two-year-old had drug-resistant diphtheria.

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A number of family members had the same symptoms. But they had a choice to make. They could only afford treatment for one person. Two-year-old Muskan was treated with critically important antibiotics.

Credit: TBIJ/BSAC/Abdul Majeed

But her three-year-old cousin Furqan’s illness went untreated.

Credit: TBIJ/BSAC/Abdul Majeed