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Sr. Anna Tommasi checks a patient in the sick bay at Chichiri Prison in Blantyre, Malawi. Malawi's prisons, known for their harsh conditions, do not house health facilities but set aside rooms to treat prisoners with minor illnesses. Sick inmates are mixed with others in cells and sleeping dormitories thereby increasing chances of further transmission of communicable diseases. Tommasi facilitated the construction of a multipurpose sick bay to isolate ill inmates at the facility. (Courtesy of Anna Tommasi)