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addPhoto('images/0807.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','Measles kills 500,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa each year. The disease can spread quickly, especially in crowded, unhygienic conditions, which are often found in conflict zones and in places where poverty and lack of health care has prevented children from being vaccinated.');

addPhoto('images/17883.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','When Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) arrived in 2004 in Kebkabiya in North Darfur, Sudan, local leaders, parents, and health-care workers told of children dying of measles despite a vaccination campaign that had been carried out by the ministry of health. Kebkabiya’s population swelled from 12,000 to 60,000 over the past year as people fleeing fighting in the region settled in and around the town. MSF surveys found that merely 63.2 percent of the people had been vaccinated against measles. MSF proposed a mass vaccination campaign for all children between six months and 15 years old living in Kebkabiya and the nearby town of Serif Umra—a total of more than 35,000 children.');

addPhoto('images/0674.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','MSF worked with local community leaders to identify the best sites in the towns for the vaccination campaign and enlisted locally hired staff to get the word out to Kebkabiya residents and displaced people. After overcoming difficulties securing permissions for the campaign and getting the vaccines and medical staff in place, MSF launched its measles-vaccination program in late September, 2004.');

addPhoto('images/0733.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','Early in the morning, MSF staff and local health workers prepare the vaccines for the campaign. Measles vaccines require the maintenance of a “cold chain”—dependable refrigerators and coolers that keep the vaccines within a constant temperature range—a difficult task in a town where generators are the only source of electricity. At one of the vaccination sites, an MSF nurse and local health-care worker maintain the cold chain by placing vaccines in smaller coolers to be used by each vaccinator.');

addPhoto('images/0756.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','A vaccinator fills syringes with the appropriate amount of vaccine so that many children can be immunized quickly. The vaccines are kept on top of ice packs to maintain the cold chain.');

addPhoto('images/0864.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','Children line up to be vaccinated at one of the sites.');

addPhoto('images/1555.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','Each child receives an immunization card to show that he or she has been vaccinated against measles. MSF staff tally the numbers of children being vaccinated, and each child’s sex and age, to calculate the success of the vaccination campaign.');

addPhoto('images/1563.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','Recognizing that many parents are unable to bring their children to the vaccination points, MSF deploys a mobile vaccination team to the local market to reach children there.');

addPhoto('images/1649.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','A community leader walks through the market in Kebkabiya announcing the measles-vaccination campaign and urging parents to bring their children to be vaccinated.');

addPhoto('images/17876.jpg','Kris Torgeson/MSF','Over a 12-day period, nearly 27,000 children were vaccinated in Kebkabiya alone. The campaign continued in three MSF clinics and in the local hospital for new arrivals and those not previously vaccinated.');