Pigs in a pen in a village in Linquan County, China. Barcroft Media via Getty Images hide caption
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A little girl fills two jerrycans with water in the Korangi slum in Karachi. Fetching water is a duty that often falls on very young children. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
These mosquitoes have been fed a new artificial blood called "SkitoSnack." Kristina Gonzales hide caption
Sangita Magar bears the scars of an acid attack that took place three years ago. She was a plaintiff in a public interest case to change Nepal's law on acid and burn violence. Sajana Shrestha for NPR hide caption
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At the main ambulance base in central Freetown, Sierra Leone, a government health worker disinfects ambulances with chlorine spray during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Tommy Trenchard hide caption
A cluster of rotaviruses. The image is from a transmission electron micrograph and has been colored. Dr. Gopal Murti/Science Source hide caption
Bryn Sobott of the FREO2 Foundation presents his group's solution to pneumonia treatment — an oxygen delivery machine that can operate using the energy generated by running water — at a pitch competition organized by Saving Lives At Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development in Washington, D.C. Pearl Mak/NPR hide caption
Blood samples of people living with HIV in a laboratory at the AIDS Research Center in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A colored scanning electron micrograph of a female Anopheles mosquito, a vector for the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax. Dennis Kunkel/Science Source hide caption
A mother holds her newborn twins at a Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, a public health facility in India. Paula Bronstein/The Verbatim Agency/Getty Images hide caption
The beaches of Brazil beckon — but travelers need to find out if they're heading to a part of the country where a yellow fever vaccine is recommended. Diego Herculano/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
A patient talks with a nurse at a traveling contraception clinic in Madagascar run by the British nonprofit group Marie Stopes International. The organization is one of many that has decided to give up U.S. funding because it deems Trump's ban on providing abortion referrals to be ethically unacceptable. Samantha Reinders for NPR hide caption
A worker disinfects shoes outside the Ebola security zone at a hospital in Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Junior Kannah/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A Pakistani health worker administers the oral polio vaccine to a child during a campaign in Karachi on May 7. Because of past attacks on vaccinators, security personnel are often assigned to accompany them. Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
This red blood cell is swollen by the malaria parasite. In this image from a transmission electron micrograph, the blood cell has been colored red and the single-cell malaria parasite has been colored green. Dr. Tony Brain/Science Source hide caption
A demonstration in Copenhagen, Denmark, in support of Syrian migrants. A new study looks at the benefit of offering physical and psychological support to refugees who have been tortured. Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
On May 13, people suspected of having the Ebola virus wait at a treatment center in the village of Bikoro, where the outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. John Bompengo/AP hide caption
A woman is vaccinated at a health center in Conakry, Guinea, during the clinical trials of a vaccine against the Ebola virus. Cellou Binani /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Dario Garcia, who lives in Panama, volunteers to visit people who are HIV-positive to see whether they are taking their medications. Garcia himself is HIV-positive. "I feel alone," he says. "I believe the most support I have now is from others who have been diagnosed." Jacob McCleland for NPR hide caption