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Kosollo Babashehu manuevering through the flooded streets of Maiduguri to provide immunisation services to the emergency IDP Camp at Mairi Primary School, “we are ensuring our children get protected now more than ever.” Credit: CHAN

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A girl with a health worker during a HPV vaccination session in Eswatini. Credit: Gavi/2025/Svetlomir Slavchev

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Tamlega dispensary engages parents through written material and involves them in decision making to dispel myths, provide accurate information and encourage HPV vaccination. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

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A health worker cares for a sick child at a cholera treatment centre in Gedaref State, eastern Sudan, November 2024. Copyright: UNOCHA / Yao Chen

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Health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak that swept West African countries in 2017. Copyright: UC Rusal Photo Gallery

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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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A mother brings her child to get vaccinated at a health centre in Niamey, Niger. Credit: Isaac Griberg

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A health worker administering a vaccine to a child as he is held by his mother as part of the Reach Zero Dose Children (ZDC) campaign in Somalia, aimed at identifying children who have not received any vaccines, or communities missed by the healthcare system. Credit: Gavi/2024/Mohamed Abdihakim Ali

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HPV vaccine launch. Credit: Zeeshan Noor, Jhpiego

A turning point for women’s health in Pakistan

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Low- and Middle-Income Countries have an opportunity to leapfrog fragmented healthcare systems and build approaches that work for citizens. Image: Theodore Ghoutas/Unsplash

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More than a hundred women and girls gathered in Rehri Goth for an HPV vaccination awareness session, hosted by the Health Education Literacy Program (HELP), a civil society organiszation working to increase vaccine uptake in under-served areas. Credit: Huma Khawar

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Perspective, proposal for the UN headquarters, including the General Assembly and Secretariat, 27 March 1947, by Le Corbusier. Credit: Pascal Barollier via LinkedIn

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