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Dr. Naznin Akter’s journey in safeguarding special girl children against human papillomavirus (HPV)
"My mother used to have excessive bleeding and pain during menstrual periods. Later due to the pain becoming unbearable, she had to have her uterus removed through surgery in order to prevent cervical cancer as she was in high risk of contracting the disease since she was not vaccinated against Human Papillomaviru...
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Going mobile to reach Bangladesh’s zero-dose children
Each morning, weather permitting, a team of health workers sets off from the Thanchi clinic in the Bandarban region of Bangladesh. Their goal is to reach children in remote villages, high up in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, to protect them against vaccine preventable diseases. The journey starts early morning at the...
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Should you get your children vaccinated against COVID-19?
Widespread vaccination has been instrumental in helping curb the spread of coronavirus. Now that COVID-19 vaccines have reached billions of people worldwide, the overwhelming evidence confirms that vaccines offer protection against a disease that has claimed millions of lives worldwide. The pandemic is far from ov...
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Braving all odds: The superheroes with syringes
India launched the world’s largest vaccination drive in January 2021 against COVID-19, and the country managed to fully vaccinate 61.3 per cent of its total population. The massive vaccination effort has been supported by the invaluable contribution of vaccinators and volunteers from across the country. Along wit...
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20 million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 15 July 2019, – 20 million children worldwide – more than 1 in 10 – missed out on lifesaving vaccines such as measles, diphtheria and tetanus in 2018, according to new data from WHO and UNICEF. Globally, since 2010, vaccination coverage with three doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) ...
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Women on a mission: Eradicating polio in Afghanistan
SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN, 24 October 2018, – “Where I live, it is not safe for a woman to show her face. It is not easy to be a woman or child here. My cousin is just 11 years old and she is already engaged to be married soon. I am lucky… [my father] let me go to school and I have no pressure to get married, because...