Photo Essay: Saving Lives Through Vaccination in Northern Uganda

A sign directs people to the Ongica Health Centre in the Lira District of northern Uganda

Ongica Health Centre in the Lira District of northern Uganda

Vaccines stored centrally at the district health office for distribution to health centres

Difficult road conditions pose a challenge to distributing and delivering vaccines

A gas-powered fridge at the Ongica Health Centre keeps vaccines at the right temperature

A cooler and ice packs used to carry vaccines out to remote communities from Ongica Health

Centre.

Bicycles lined up at the Ongica Health Centre in northern Uganda. Health Workers rely on these

bikes to get the vaccines to remote communities.

The vaccine manager at Ongica Health Centre , Adongo Grace

Grace gets vaccines out of the Ongica Health Centre fridge to take to the immunization outreach

day.

The vaccine manager at Ongica Health Centre , Adongo Grace, is getting the cooler ready to

transport the vaccines.

Vaccines are packed in ice, stored in a cooler and ready to take to take to the outreach day.

Grace carries vaccines and supplies on the back of a bicycle. She’s on her way to a vaccination

outreach in a remote community.

Cura Market where people come from nearby communities to buy goods. On this day, vaccines are

being delivered by health workers from the Ongica Health Centre.

Health workers from the Ongica Health Centre in northern Uganda set up for their vaccination

outreach day

Moms and their babies wait for vaccines at the Cura Market.

Midwife Babara prepares to give six-week-old baby Aceng her vaccinations at the outreach day at

the Cura Market.

Eunice, a nursing assistant, tracks vaccinations completed at the Cura Market.

Health workers from the Ongica Health Centre pause during their vaccination outreach day at Cura

Market.