Professors Salim Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim, married for more than 40 years, are respected around the world for their research on HIV. In September they were named winners of the Lasker Award for public service in recognition for their groundbreaking medical research. Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A dengue patient receives treatment at a hospital in Dhaka on September 28, 2024. Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
Suad Abdulaziz Hamid Ahmed, 29, sits with her 5 children, plus some of her sister's children in the spontaneous settlement in Adré. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
In Bangladesh, turmeric — sold as the root or in a powder form — is a popular spice. In the 1980s, some farmers began adding a dye to make the root more attractive to buyers. But there was a problem with the dye. Jenna Forsyth hide caption
A vehicle belonging to the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drives past the shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020 — the day that the Wuhan health commission reported what is believed to be the first death from COVID-19. A new study points to raccoon dogs sold in the market as the likely source of the spillover of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from animals to humans. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A mobile lab visits a village in the war-torn Kharkiv region. Villagers line up for general checkups. HIV testing and treatment is a big part of the agenda.
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A vial of lenacapavir. The HIV prevention drug, delivered twice yearly by injection, has shown remarkable effectiveness in quashing HIV in trials. Nardus Engelbrecht/AP hide caption
Helena Soholm holds up the five directional flags of Korean shamanism in Dronningmølle, Denmark. Arin Yoon hide caption
Khadija Rahmani says her son, Mujib Ur Rahman, 12, looks forward to visits from Shabana Siddiqui, a health educator who left Afghanistan in 2022. The Rahmani family arrived in the U.S. in January and settled in Maine. Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative hide caption
A health worker administers an oral polio vaccine in Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip. The World Health Organization says that in less than two weeks, they’ve helped administer more than 550,000 polio vaccines to children across the enclave. Now they're gearing up for the second dose. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
An woman in Kabul walks past a wall mural with a map of Afghanistan. A sweeping new morality law issued by the Taliban requires women to have a male escort on any trip outside home. Wakil Koshar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A schoolgirl receives a dose of HPV vaccine at a community health service center in Guiyang, Guizhou province, China. Zhao Song/CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images hide caption
Patricia Neves (left) and Ana Paula Ano Bom take a break at the institute in Rio de Janeiro where they work. The two scientists say they've been inseparable since they met in college. Now their friendship has made it possible to launch a remarkable partnership to make mRNA vaccines accessible to the world. Ian Cheibub for NPR hide caption
Meenakshi Gupta, who is blind, works as a "medical tactile examiner" to identify breast tumors. The mannequin is used in the training program for would-be examiners. The strips enable the examiners to identify and carefully examine each zone of the breast. Smita Sharma for NPR hide caption
Fatouma Zahara Hasan, a widow with a large family from the town of Chifera, has her photograph taken on a tablet as part of a vast registration drive to ensure that food aid funded by the United States in parts of Ethiopia is only provided to recipients that qualify. Ed Kiernan hide caption