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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) expands access to health information digitally and free of charge to people around the world. Explore a selection of items from the NLM’s collections related to the revolutionary examples of global health intervention.

Cover of a book with text and a drawing of a virus.

Poster for a talk titled “Papillomavirus Virus-like Particles: For Vaccines against HPV and Other Diseases,” 2002

GARDASIL, the first vaccine to protect people from cervical cancer caused by HPV (human papilloma virus), came to market in 2006. Four years before that, the NIH director hosted an afternoon lecture featuring a researcher from the National Cancer Institute discussing issues related to the development of an HPV vaccine.