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  • Nurse Konam Aya Marguerite fills information about a patient at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Nurse Christina Quarshey fills a chart to help track the growth of a child at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Nurse Eugenia Beatson meets with Ramatu Zango talk about her 7-month-old daughter Sekinata Sakande (7.7 kg) during a counseling session at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Ramatu Zango holds her 7-month-old daughter Sekinata Sakande (7.7 kg) while discussing with nurse Denise Kalmoni at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Nurse Konam Aya Marguerite hands a prescription to a patient at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Nurse Konam Aya Marguerite stands in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Nurse Rebecca Lartey prepares a pentavalent vaccine at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Nurse Cécile Aka Ahoua (left) examines seven-year-old daughter Aishata Konante who waits with her mother Ahoua Konante at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. Aishata suffers from fever, cough and muscle pains.
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  • Nurse Cécile Aka Ahoua speaks to patients at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Nurse Esther Bonsu helps Florence Andoff breast feed her 1-day-old boy at the La Polyclinic in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Nurse Rebecca Lartey injects four-month-old Samuel Tswumasi (7.4kg) with a pentavalent vaccine at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Nurse Rebecca Lartey prepares a pentavalent vaccine at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Nurse Mabel Boateng at the Kpong health center in Kpong, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • Nurse Cécile Aka Ahoua gives painkillers for seven-year-old daughter Aishata Konante who waits with her mother Ahoua Konante at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. Aishata suffers from fever, cough and muscle pains.
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  • Nurse Cécile Aka Ahoua calls a patient at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Nurse Rebecca Lartey prepares a pentavalent vaccine at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Nurses outside the Kpong health center in Kpong, Ghana on Wednesday June 17, 2009.
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  • Sister Kwame Amena Catherine collects money from Konaté Fatouma at the pharmacy of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Kouadio Ahou Viviane holds her 16-month-old boy Emmanuel Ngora Kwame during a consultation with Sister Pauline Kangah Akissi and Dr. Charles Joseph Diby at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • A health worker checks the blood pressure of a pregnant woman at the Abomey health center in the town of Abomey, Benin on Monday September 17, 2007.
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  • Ward supervisor Tengbeh Dukuly teaches Patience Karkuah, 21, how to breast feed her baby girl, who was born just a few hours ago, at the Redemption hospital in Monrovia, Montserrado country, Liberia  on Wednesday April 4, 2012.
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  • A health worker measures Blessing Hokkoe, 6 months old, who suffers from moderate malnutrition, during growth monitoring at the Slipway clinic in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Chacklie Soman, 17, holds her son Leo Karsor, 8 months, who is malnourished, while he has is armed measured by a health worker during growth monitoring at the Pipeline health center in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Kouadio Ahou Viviane breast feeds her 16-month-old boy Emmanuel Ngora Kwame during a consultation with Sister Pauline Kangah Akissi and Dr. Charles Joseph Diby (not seen) at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Kouadio Ahou Viviane holds her 16-month-old boy Emmanuel Ngora Kwame during a consultation with Sister Pauline Kangah Akissi and Dr. Charles Joseph Diby (not seen) at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • A health worker fills in a registry with medical information during a consultation with a pregnant woman at the Abomey health center in the town of Abomey, Benin on Monday September 17, 2007.
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  • A medical worker shows equipment used for reviving newborns at the Adja-Ouere community health center in the village of Adja-Ouere, Benin on Friday September 14, 2007. Some of the equipment is sponsored by unicef.
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  • A girl is measured at the Pipeline health center in Monrovia, Montserrado county, Liberia on Monday April 2, 2012.
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  • Sister Kwame Amena Catherine collects money from Konaté Fatouma at the pharmacy of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Kouadio Ahou Viviane holds her 16-month-old boy Emmanuel Ngora Kwame during a consultation with Sister Pauline Kangah Akissi and Dr. Charles Joseph Diby (not seen) at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Patients in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Aisha Alhassan, 12 (second from left) attends class at the Nyologu Primary School in the village of Nyologu, northern Ghana, on Wednesday June 6, 2007. "I like to study maths," says Aisha, who helps her parents at home by picking shea nuts, fetching water and washing bowls. "I want to become a nurse, so I can take care of mother if she becomes sick," she adds. Only 4 of 21 students in this class are girls..
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse prepares a dose of measles vaccine at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse holds a vial of rotavirus vaccine at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse prepares a dose of pneumococcal vaccine at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse prepares a dose of measles vaccine at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, Priscilla Boni, 33, listens to a nurse as she sits with her son Desmond Ohene Akonor, 18 months old, who suffers from broncho-pneumonia, at the Princess Marie Louise Children's hospital in Accra. The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A woman waits for her daughter to be vaccinated while a nurse checks her health record at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Nurse Aramata Diawara vaccinates Fanta Kamissoko, 22, 6 mo pregnant, against tetanus during a prenatal consultation at the Kita reference health center in the town of Kita, Mali on Monday August 30, 2010..
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, Forgive Fiatsi, 21, listens to a nurse as she sits with her son Richmond, 1, in the ORS (oral rehydration salts) unit of the Princess Marie Louise Children's hospital in Accra..The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, Women listen to a nurse talk about vaccination and nutrition as they sit with their children at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Nurse Maba N'Djim listens for heartbeat on the belly of Kegneba Diakite, 28, 6 mo pregnant, during a prenatal consultation in the village of Banankoro, Mali on Saturday August 28, 2010..
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  • Community Health Nurse Isatu Djalloh carries two-year-old Blackie on her lap as he's transported aboard an emergency speedboat from the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, to the district hospital in Bonthe, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010. Suffering from severe dehydration, the boy needed to be referred to the district hospital.
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  • Two-year-old Balckie sits on the lap of his mother Marie Tabeh while he is being examined by Community Health Nurse Isatu Djalloh at the Yoni PHU in the village of Yoni, on Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone on Thursday April 22, 2010.
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  • A nurse examines a child at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse speaks to women about vaccination and nutrition at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Nurse Maba N'Djim explains to Kegneba Diakite, 28, 6 mo pregnant, how to use her new treated mosquito net during a prenatal consultation in the village of Banankoro, Mali on Saturday August 28, 2010. Pregnant women receive a treated net on their first prenatal consultation..
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  • A nurse trainee checks a pregnant woman's blood pressure during a prenatal clinic at the UBC hospital in Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone on Friday April 23, 2010.
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  • A nurse trainee checks a pregnant woman's blood pressure during a prenatal clinic at the UBC hospital in Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone on Friday April 23, 2010.
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  • Mrs Esther Uwa, a volunteer nurse from Nigeria, checks on the flow of a blood transfusion during a procedure to remove a retained placenta from the womb Seybatu Koroma, 32, at the UBC hospital in Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone, on Tuesday April 20, 2010.
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  • MCH nurse Helen Kumbasaquee examines Kumba Lebbie, 18, who is pregnant for the first time, at the Tombodu PHU in Tombodu, Sierra Leone on Wednesday March 17, 2010.
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  • MCH nurse Helen Kumbasaquee measures the blood pressure of Yei Komeh, 19 years old, who is 32 weeks pregnant, at the Tombodu PHU in Tombodu, Sierra Leone on Wednesday March 17, 2010.
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  • A community health nurse speaks about polio immunization at the Gbulahabila primary school in the village of Gbulahabila, northern Ghana on Wednesday March 25, 2009.
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  • A community health nurse and a volunteer visit homes to vaccinate children against polio in the village of Gbulahabila, northern Ghana on Wednesday March 25, 2009.
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  • A nurse carries Kambou Sansan, 4, a malnourished boy, during a visit at the Panzarani health center in the village of Panzarani, Zanzan region, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday November 25, 2011.
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  • Katy Cherif, 40, and her twin sons Lacine (left) and Lusseini, both 4 and suffering from malaria and diarrhea, meet with a nurse at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Katy Cherif, 40, and her twin sons Lacine (left) and Lusseini, both 4 and suffering from malaria and diarrhea, meet with a nurse at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Katy Cherif, 40, and her twin sons Lacine (not seen) and Lusseini, both 4 and suffering from malaria and diarrhea, meet with a nurse at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Diallo Amadou, 25, holds his son Diallo Mamadou Kalidou, 9 months, who suffers from anemia and malaria, as they meet with a nurse during a consultation at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Diallo Amadou, 25, holds his son Diallo Mamadou Kalidou, 9 months, who suffers from anemia and malaria, as they meet with a nurse during a consultation at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • A nurse examines a child at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • A nurse examines a child while his mother watches at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • A nurse takes a child's temperature at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • A woman and her child meet with a nurse during a consultation at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse opens a vial of rotavirus vaccine at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, Priscilla Boni, 33, listens to a nurse as she sits with her son Desmond Ohene Akonor, 18 months old, who suffers from broncho-pneumonia, at the Princess Marie Louise Children's hospital in Accra. The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, Back of a t-shirt worn by a nurse in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse prepares a dose of measles vaccine at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse prepares a dose of measles vaccine at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A woman helps a nurse weigh her child at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse holds a treated mosquito net as she speaks to women at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Nurse Maba N'Djim checks the blood pressure of Awa Diarra, 26, 3 mo. pregnant, during a prenatal consultation in the village of Banankoro, Mali on Saturday August 28, 2010..
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  • Vaccinator Bala Diakite and nurse Maba N'Djim ride a motorcycle as they head to the village of Banankoro, Mali to provide outreach health services on Saturday August 28, 2010. They visit the village once a month to provide services such as vaccination, prenatal counseling, and nutrition monitoring.
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  • A nurse stands next to the bed of Nafisatu Bah, 19, who recovers aftera c-section surgery at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Monday April 26, 2010. It was Nafisatu's first pregnancy.
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  • Mamie Sesay, 35, lies in bed with her newborn child as she recovers from surgery that saved her life at the Pujehun Government hospital in Pujehun, Sierra Leone on Friday March 19, 2010. After Mamie had given birth at a health center located 12 miles away, the nurse in charge struggled for two hours to extract the woman's placenta, that had remained blocked. She then called an ambulance that took six hours to get Mamie back to the hospital where she finally got treated. Medical staff said saving her was a miracle - she had been bleeding for 8 hours. This was Mamie's 10th pregnancy, four of which resulted in the death of the child. Her first child is 18 years old...
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  • MCH nurse Helen Kumbasaquee measures the blood pressure of Yei Komeh, 19 years old, who is 32 weeks pregnant, at the Tombodu PHU in Tombodu, Sierra Leone on Wednesday March 17, 2010.
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  • A community health nurse vaccinates children against polio at the Gbulahabila primary school in the village of Gbulahabila, northern Ghana on Wednesday March 25, 2009..
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  • A community health nurse speaks about polio immunization at the Gbulahabila primary school in the village of Gbulahabila, northern Ghana on Wednesday March 25, 2009.
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  • A community health nurse speaks about polio immunization at the Gbulahabila primary school in the village of Gbulahabila, northern Ghana on Wednesday March 25, 2009.
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  • A community health nurse speaks about polio immunization at the Gbulahabila primary school in the village of Gbulahabila, northern Ghana on Wednesday March 25, 2009.
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  • A community health nurse marks a child's finger with indelible ink after vaccinating him against polio in the village of Gbulahabila, northern Ghana on Wednesday March 25, 2009.
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  • Jessica Dowonah holds her two-year-old son Guideon Nortey (9.5 kg) while they wait to meet with a nurse at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Jessica Dowonah (right) holds her two-year-old son Guideon Nortey (9.5 kg) while they wait to meet with a nurse at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • Dora Sarpong and her 14-month-old daughter Grace Ganar (8.7 kg) wait to meet a nurse at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • A nurse writes prescriptions for Lusseini (left) and Lacine, both 4 and suffering from malaria and diarrhea, to give their mother Katy Cherif, 40, during a consultation at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • A nurse writes prescriptions for Lusseini (left) and Lacine, both 4 and suffering from malaria and diarrhea, to give their mother Katy Cherif, 40, during a consultation at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • A nurse gives vitamin A supplement to Lacine, 4, who suffers from malaria and diarrhea, during a consultation at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Katy Cherif, 40, and her twin sons Lacine (left) and Lusseini, both 4 and suffering from malaria and diarrhea, meet with a nurse at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013. Center bottom is Katy's mother Matila Cherif, 60.
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  • Katy Cherif, 40, and her twin sons Lacine (right) and Lusseini, both 4 and suffering from malaria and diarrhea, meet with a nurse at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Katy Cherif, 40, and her twin sons Lacine (left) and Lusseini, both 4 and suffering from malaria and diarrhea, meet with a nurse at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Diallo Amadou, 25, holds his son Diallo Mamadou Kalidou, 9 months, who suffers from anemia and malaria, as they meet with a nurse during a consultation at the Libreville health center in Man, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 24, 2013.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse examines a child at the Princess Marie Louise Children's hospital in Accra. The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse prepares a dose of vaccine at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Esther Njeri (R), 20, follows the instructions of head nurse Pauline Ochola as she demonstrates condom use at the Makadara district hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday December 16, 2009. Esther originally didn't want to hear about family planning, but changed her mind and decided to seek information on the occasion of a visit to the hospital planned for 6 months after she gave birth.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse speaks with a woman about her child's vaccination schedule at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Ghana: 25 April 2012, A nurse writes in a child's health record at the Dodowa new town health outreach point in Dodowa.The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership that brings together developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.  Set up in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI's mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health by increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
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  • Nurse Maba N'Djim hands a treated mosquito net to Kegneba Diakite, 28, 6 mo pregnant, during a prenatal consultation in the village of Banankoro, Mali on Saturday August 28, 2010. Pregnant women receive a treated net on their first prenatal consultation..
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  • Nurse Maba N'Djim listens for heartbeat on the belly of Kegneba Diakite, 28, 6 mo pregnant, during a prenatal consultation in the village of Banankoro, Mali on Saturday August 28, 2010..
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  • Awa Diarra, 26, 3 mo. pregnant, meets with nurse Maba N'Djim during a prenatal consultation in the village of Banankoro, Mali on Saturday August 28, 2010..
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  • Nurse Maba N'Djim measures the belly of Awa Diarra, 26, 3 mo. pregnant, during a prenatal consultation in the village of Banankoro, Mali on Saturday August 28, 2010..
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