BOP 2002 > Still Photography Entries > Magazine Photographer of the Year
- Aurora & Quanta Productions
summary - "The Children of Chernobyl" - For fifteen years Cuba has been treating children who are radiation fallout victims at the Ciudad de Pioneros Tarara, a treatment facility outside of Havana for the child victims of the Chernobyl disaster. Cuba is still receiving and treating these radiation victims, being the single largest country providing health care for these children. The children deal with neurological diseases, vitiligo, a discoloration of the skin due to a loss of pigmentation, and hairloss. Over half of the children who get treated in Cuba are orphans back in the Ukraine. They have treated over 19,000 children since the program started. Cuban doctors in the Ukraine select those who would benefit the most from the treatment depending on their sickness. But because of the U.S. embargo, Cuba has had to limit the number and variety of children they treat. The embargo has made it increasingly hard and expensive for Cuba to bring in the badly needed drugs used to fight leukemia and lymphomas throug
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