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On a street in Nigeria, two health workers provide an oral polio vaccine to a child.

Vaccinating the world against a virus: What it will take

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We are living through an unprecedented moment in time. With COVID-19 vaccine procurement and delivery underway, we are in the midst of a global health effort unlike what many of us have seen. But in some ways, we have been here before – with polio. In the early part of the twentieth century, few diseases affected children and… Read more →←
Sheltering under the desks during an earthquake drill at Muhammadiyah Primary School in Banda Aceh. New school buildings were designed to be earthquake-resistant and equipped with desks with thick wooden surfaces bolted to metal legs.

Ten years after the tsunami – the benefits of building back better

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Picture this: It’s a Sunday in late December. You’re woken by a strong earthquake early in the morning and you know something is wrong. Soon, you’re running from the waters of a tsunami that’s flattening almost everything in its wake. You reach the top of a hill, along with others some of whom have been injured in the scramble to… Read more →←

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