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Introduction of the HPV vaccine in Sao Tome and Principe. Credit: Gavi/2017/Thierry Vincent

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A health worker preparing Covid-19 vaccination for a young girl who came for the vaccination in a government vaccination center in F9 Park Islamabad, Pakistan, this is the only facility in the country where people can ask to be administered a vaccine of their choice. Credit: Gavi/Asad Zaidi

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Colourised transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicting a salivary gland that had been extracted from a mosquito, infected by the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. Credit: Fred Murphy and Sylvia Whitfield, CDC Public Library

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Boy in Emerson respirator (iron lung) in Herman Keifer Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, due to polio. Viewing photographer (Joe Clark) in machine's mirror. Ca. 1955. Credit: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine

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Permanent, 23, fetches water from the river behind her house in the Onuegbu community in Bayelsa State, where she sells grilled fish. Ogbia, Nigeria. December 17, 2024. Credit: Jérôme Sessini/ Magnum Photos

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Nurse administers an oral vaccine to a child, held by his grandmother in Southwest State, Somalia. Credit: Mohamed Abdihakim Ali

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A health worker preparing COVID-19 vaccination for a woman at a government vaccination center in Islamabad, Pakistan. Credit: Gavi/2021/Asad Zaidi

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