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70% and counting: how Lagos is fending off misinformation to get more girls protected from cancer

A multi-pronged effort to counter misinformation around the cancer-blocking shot is paying off in Lagos.

12 Sep 2025

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A health care worker prepares to administer yellow fever vaccine to a child at the Duhuma Health Post, Nigeria. Credit: Gavi/2023/Nr Dambali

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8 Sep 2025

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A plaster is applied to the injection site of a young woman after receiving a vaccination. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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Yesco Maureen, a Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) for Alivu parish in Maracha district guiding memebers of a family on the dates for malaria vaccination during home visits. Credit: John Musenze

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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 healthcare worker prepares the mpox vaccine at the Lwiro Hospital mpox treatment centre in South Kivu province, DRC. Credit: Christian Mirindi Johnson

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Myriama, 23, communications manager. She recently left her position because she didn’t feel respected. Abidjan, Ivory Coast. June 2025. Credit: Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos

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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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A health worker prepares to administer the first dose of IAVI’s Sudan virus vaccine as part of a ring vaccination trial launched in response to an outbreak of Sudan virus disease in Uganda. Credit: WHO

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