Fatima Sajed kisses her comatose son on the last day of his life in Baghdad's al-Monsour Pediatric Hospital. Without cytotoxins to treat Ali Hagem's retinal blastoma, the cancer spread. U.N. sanctions deny doctors the basic medicines they need to treat curable diseases. Sajed said Ali was the fourth of her seven children to die in the last decade



Mothers cradling sick and malnourished children wait for the attention of pediatrician Hussein Mohammed at the Basra Maternity and Pediatrics Hospital. Dysentery and gastroenteritis are epidemic in Iraq, and chronic malnutrition leaves children more vulnerable to pneumonia, bronchitis and other infections.