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GAIA Vaccine Foundation is a Providence-based nonprofit with the mission of infectious-disease prevention in West Africa. GAIA, which stands for Global Alliance to Immunize Against AIDS, has offered HIV care-and-prevention services for other diseases at community health centers in Bamako, Mali. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
GAIA Vaccine Foundation is a Providence-based nonprofit with the mission of infectious-disease prevention in West Africa. GAIA, which stands for Global Alliance to Immunize Against AIDS, has offered HIV care-and-prevention services for other diseases at community health centers in Bamako, Mali. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Eliza Squibb | GAIA Vaccine Foundation executive director You might wonder how a textile designer ended up running a health-focused nonprofit. It all started in 2012, while I was still a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. Dr. Anne S. De Groot, vaccine researcher and GAIA’s founder, reached out to the textile department

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