A nurse administers a measles vaccine to a student in Yemen on Feb. 9, 2019, during a week-long vaccination campaign against measles at a school amid a rapidly spreading outbreak. Both there and elsewhere, health workers face extraordinary circumstances, and at times take immense personal risks, to deliver vaccines to vulnerable communities. In 2013, health workers in northern Nigeria were wrapping up an immunization drive to help vaccinate children against the polio virus when armed gunmen appeared and opened fire, killing at least nine of them. “And you’ve spent days and days to get there.”In places like Madagascar, health workers face similar logistical challenges while delivering vaccines. “The reasons that children aren’t vaccinated in Congo are very different from the reasons children aren’t vaccinated in America or Europe,” Roberts said.

Source: Washington Post February 13, 2019 11:03 UTC