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The Indonesian doctor tackling tuberculosis via treatment, tweets and TikTok

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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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Bello Dikko, Chairman of Polio Survivors Association in Sokoto, Northwest Nigeria. Credit: Tunde Omolehin

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A team of health workers, village health teams (VHTs), and other community leaders meeting in Agoro to figure out how to stop cholera after the disease killed a woman. Credit: Denis Ocula

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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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The Battle of Hattin, from a 13th-century manuscript of the Chronica Majora depicting the capture of the True Cross by Saladin. Credit: Matthew Paris - Cambridge, Corpus Christi College.

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Vaccinating a child against polio at the Mindikru internally displaced peoples's site near Sekota town, Ethiopia, in May 2022. According to outgoing acting WHO director Chikwe Ihekweazu, Africa’s polio progress has been bolstered by vaccination and community-led action. Credit: Mulugeta Ayene/ UNICEF Ethiopia

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Women’s health must be understood holistically across the entire life course. Credit: REUTERS/Samrang Pring

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