In Tanzania, nurse Neema Baynet Baynet can spend up to five days traveling in search of roaming Maasai tribes in need of vaccinations.
Vaccines on the savannah —
In Tanzania, nurse Neema Baynet Baynet can spend up to five days traveling in search of roaming Maasai tribes in need of vaccinations.
courtesy Chris Endean
Difficult terrain means health workers often sleep in their vehicle and have to complete their journey on foot. Vaccines must be kept cool, but a cold box provides only limited protection.
Vaccines on the savannah —
Difficult terrain means health workers often sleep in their vehicle and have to complete their journey on foot. Vaccines must be kept cool, but a cold box provides only limited protection.
courtesy Chris Endean
If a child becomes sick in remote areas they have to be carried vast distances to reach the nearest doctor. <br />Nasieku Engishon lives in the Maasai settlement of Engirirat. She almost lost her 10-month-old daughter to pneumonia and diarrhea. "Carrying a sick child, it can take four to six hours to get there," she says.
Vaccines on the savannah —
If a child becomes sick in remote areas they have to be carried vast distances to reach the nearest doctor.
Nasieku Engishon lives in the Maasai settlement of Engirirat. She almost lost her 10-month-old daughter to pneumonia and diarrhea. "Carrying a sick child, it can take four to six hours to get there," she says.
courtesy Chris Endean
About 8% of Tanzanians do not receive basic life-saving vaccines, especially hard-to-reach communities like the Maasai.
Vaccines on the savannah —
About 8% of Tanzanians do not receive basic life-saving vaccines, especially hard-to-reach communities like the Maasai.
courtesy GAVI 2012/Ryan Youngblood
The Tanzanian government is adding two new vaccines to the national immunization program, tackling the primary causes of pneumonia and diarrhea -- two of the leading killers of under-fives in Tanzania.
Vaccines on the savannah —
The Tanzanian government is adding two new vaccines to the national immunization program, tackling the primary causes of pneumonia and diarrhea -- two of the leading killers of under-fives in Tanzania.
courtesy Chris Endean
Tanzania's One Plan aims to get vaccines to all children, from the Maasai in the north to the islands of Zanzibar, which must be reached by boat.
Vaccines on the savannah —
Tanzania's One Plan aims to get vaccines to all children, from the Maasai in the north to the islands of Zanzibar, which must be reached by boat.
courtesy Chris Endean