In Soulefeta, a village in the remote Aiir Mountains of northern Niger, health care comes in the form of an empty building manned by a nurse with no equipment and no drugs. It lies about seven kilometres from Iferouāne, where there is a bigger health centre -- but in this mountainous part of the Sahara, those few kilometres are long and gruelling.

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