At the Zabout camp, in Sila Province, Chad, ALIMA and Alerte Santé led a large-scale response to a measles outbreak within the Sudanese refugee community, from early February to mid-March. Dr. Ayambi Evariste, a physician and clinical activities supervisor, looks back on the different stages of the response.
Amid a combined measles-rubella and polio vaccination campaign, health workers in remote districts sought out the children who had fallen through the system’s cracks, and offered them a few more doses of safety. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Dr. Paul Law’s Esther Project is racing to immunize children in Sankuru, DRC, as a measles epidemic looms. Now protecting 2,500 children a year, the project is expanding. A remarkable documentary shows exactly what that effort looks like on the ground.
As 93% of eligible children are reached in an outbreak-hit part of Malawi, health workers laud parents for understanding that “the vaccines are life-saving”. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.