Regina Rebecca Lokai, 3, receives a polio vaccine in Kapoeta North County, South Sudan. When southern Sudan becomes the newest country on 9 July 2011, it will have the lowest vaccine coverage rate in the world.
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Southern Sudan has only 30 miles of tarred roads, mostly in the capital Juba. Getting vaccines out to the most remote villages is an enormous challenge.
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Getting vaccines out to South Sudan's remote areas is a challenge. Here a Save the Children vehicle is stuck in the mud on way to remote Lokoges village to administer vaccines.
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If necessary vaccination teams walk, bringing vaccinations to administer to children in remote villages that can not be reached any other way.
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One of the many challenges of delivering inoculations to the remotest parts of southern Sudan is keeping the vaccines cool. If the fragile power fails and the vaccines warm to more than 46 degrees Fahrenheit they cannot be used.
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A community mobilizer informs the villagers about the vaccines.
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Mothers line up at one of the few clinics in Kapoeta North county to get their children vaccinated.
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1 in 7 children die before their fifth birthday in South Sudan. This can be dramatically improved by increasing the number of children being vaccinated.
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These vaccines protect children from measles, polio, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria and tuberculosis. Lomare Loreng, 7 months old, being given his BCG vaccine against tuberculosis.
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