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'Listening in labour', Lilongwe, Malawi.
Nurse Melifa Mphasa listens carefully to a patient's pregnant belly in the labour ward at Bwalia Hospital. In Malawi, the health ministry is working with the UK government to recruit more health workers and improve training.

Yet globally, basic health care remains a dream for many people - 1,400 women die in childbirth and pregnancy every day, and 4,000 children from diarrhoea. Health care must be prioritised at the 2008 G8 summit.

Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam

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