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Partly funded by Ireland’s State development agency, the Rural Mountain Health Initiative is getting care to those who need it the most.  BILL CORCORANreports from Lesotho

FLYING OVER the Lesotho kingdom’s vast mountain ranges, it is not hard to understand how they have proved both a blessing and a curse to the Basotho tribe, the inhabitants of the tiny country located within the borders of South Africa.