Parents, vaccinators, volunteers and kids can all play vital roles in a vaccine's journey.
Parents, vaccinators, volunteers and kids can all play vital roles in a vaccines's journey.
Transporting vaccines isn't easy. To remain effective, vaccines must be kept consistently cool — no small feat. Warm weather locations like Vanuatu, which is made up of more than 80 remote islands with limited roads, pose extreme challenges. The drone carried the vaccines in a temperature-controlled Styrofoam box and made the trip, which takes hours on foot, in just 25 minutes.
"We walk everywhere, even if it’s miles away, because we have no other means of transportation," says Mama Josephine , a volunteer vaccinator from the Democratic Republic of Congo ."Many of the places we need to reach are really remote and accessible only by foot." When Ebola hit Liberia in 2014, the problem wasn’t so much the vaccine; it was parents’ shaken confidence in a health-care system that had failed to save lives. Limited access to health care in remote regions was a major factor in the epidemic's spread. Other diseases spread, too, because parents who were unaccustomed to seeking medical care were mistrustful — even when the help came to them. “Parents hid their children," recalls Giah.
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