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AJC photos from Haiti

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Boxes filled with water purifying packets are packed tightly into a CARE truck at the Airport International Toussaint Louverture in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

CARE workers are briefed on how to use water purifying packets so they can further explain the process to people who will receive the tablets at a distribution drop.

A man wears a surgical mask to ward off the smell of dead bodies that are still stuck in the rubble and some laying on the sidewalks of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. People there are still dealing with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble.

Patients lay anywhere where space is available at l'Hospital Universitaire de la Paix in Delmas, Haiti.

Port-au-Prince-Border guards, as seen through the windshield of a bus, direct supply trucks, journalists and others through the border into Haiti from the Dominican Republic.

Michelet Pierre Louis helps Liane Roody Pareat (right) unload water purifying packets to be distributed to nearby hospitals and tent cities. The CARE unit planned to distribute about 112,000 packets.

Port-au-Prince-Officials hustle to get the proper supply truck across the Haitian border near the town of Malpasse Friday. The feeling at the border crossing was one of hurried anxiety of people wanting to help.

A woman screams in pain as her injured leg is unwrapped and inspected outside the Hospital Adramiste Diquine in Carrefour, Haiti.

A woman walks down a rubble-filled street in Port-au-Prince. Tens of thousands are feared missing or dead amid the crumbled buildings in the Haitian capital.

A boy rests outside the Hospital Adramiste Diquine in Carrefour, Haiti, after receiving treatment of injuries suffered in Tuesday's earthquake.

An injured boy lays bandaged outside Hospital Adramiste Diquine in Carrefour, Haiti. Hundreds of people were lying under makeshift tents and some were connected to IVs and laying on hospital beds.

Members of CARE distribute water purifier packets that can clean any kind of water, even muddy water.

A woman screams with pain during a surgical procedure for a gaping hole in her arm in front of the Hospital Adramiste Diquine in Carrefour, Haiti. Hospital administrators decided that it was not structurally safe for people to stay inside so it took medical practices outdoors.

A woman holds her baby while military personnel guard the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Evacuees were lined up outside the Embassy hoping to get back home or get initial treatments to injuries.

CARE nurse Sarita Michel Deliscour talks on her cell phone as a crew travels to hospitals and other sites to provide assistance outside the capital.

nside the Port-au-Prince airport a man sits to block people from entering the damaged building. Only evacuees, emergency workers, military units and media were allowed into the facility.

Patients wait for medical attention inside l'Hospital Universitaire de la Paix in Delmas, Haiti. The facility was overrun with injured people, with many being treated in makeshift tents outside.

CARE worker Sarita Michel Deliscar (center) and CARE health program coordinator, Dr. Franck Geneus, speak with a representative of the l'Hospital Universitaire de la Paix in Delmas, Haiti, to determine their needs. CARE workers offered them water purification packets, but the hospital already had gotten help from the Red Cross.

Military medics attend to a man who was badly burned and wrapped in gauze on the tarmac of the Port-au-Prince airport Friday.

This street scene is common right now in Port-au-Prince but the residents seem to be operating as normal. Aside from the make-shift tent cities that are set up in any sort of green space, the pace of life seems to not have slowed down.

The streets are filled with people here and some have even set up their roadside stand as usual.

A military helicopter lands at the Port-au-Prince airport to drop off supplies and picks up injured people who wait on stretchers on the tarmac. The airport is completely empty and damaged from the earthquake. Only media, military personal, emergency workers and evacuees are allowed to enter. Evacuees are divided into lines on the tarmac with injured people on stretchers. Media is also set up outside with their live shots.

A medic holds onto a fluid bag for a woman who lays on a stretcher on the tarmac of the Port-au-Prince airport.

Port-au-Prince-Water trucks line the street at the border crossing into Haiti Friday.

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Boxes filled with water purifying packets are packed tightly into a CARE truck at the Airport International Toussaint Louverture in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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