ZERO DOSE: IMMUNIZATION AROUND THE WORLD
Highway Child partnered with UNICEF and the United States Centre for Disease Control to showcase the importance of immunization through photography, sending our photographers - including Karel Prinsloo, Anita Khemka, and Erico Hiller - to 10 countries to capture the improvements in health systems around the world.
A health worker runs through a sudden rain storm at a mobile vaccination unit in Luanda, Angola.
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" I feel very happy that my baby is vaccinated," says Francesca Da Silva, 30. "I have not vaccinated my daughter before as there was nobody to take me to the hospital to vaccinate her."
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Shyam Vishal Kale (2 years), with Lovely, his cousin. They live on the streets of Mumbai, India where most street children are either under-vaccinated or have never received a single vaccine.
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Mehjabeen, a zero-dose child who lives with her family along the pipeline at Indira Nagar slum in Bandra, Mumbai, is seen near their home.
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Health worker Trisnawani holds a cold box with polio vaccines during a polio vaccine campaign in Aceh Province, Indonesia.
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Health worker Rosfidani administers the polio vaccine to students at a primary school in Aceh Province, Indonesia.
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13-month-old Jonaila receives her first polio vaccine with the help of her mother Jamila in Marantao, Philippines.
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A nurse holds 3-month-old Mohammed Zeyad after giving him the polio and pentavalent vaccines at the Buadiposo-Buntong Rural Health Unit in the Philippines.
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Sania is with 8-month-old Jobayed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after Jobayed had received his first vaccination against tuberculosis.
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Health worker Amena Begum, is photographed at work at the Surjer Hashi clinic in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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50-year-old Reina Flor Diaz holds her 1-year-old daughter Briana Yaicate, while waiting for the nurse from the UNICEF-supported health brigade at the local community center in Loreto, Peru.
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Nurse Maribel Vilela Grandez who works for the UNICEF-supported health brigade, vaccinates 9-year-old Marcos Chota with his second COVID-19 dose in Loreto, Peru. Due to the lack of access to free health care, many children do not have their vaccinations up to date.
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