Trekking savannah for nomads' vaccines
Editor's note: Chris Endean works for GAVI Alliance, a public-private partnership focused on increasing access to immunization in poor countries. He writes for CNN ahead of the GAVI Alliance Partners' Forum in Tanzania. Arusha, Tanzania (CNN) -- In most doctors' waiting rooms, it's the nurse who calls the mother and child for their vaccination. In Tanzania's Arusha National Park, nurse Neema Baynet has to go out and find her patients. With the Maasai tribes constantly on the move searching for water and fresh pasture for their cattle, Baynet can spend up to five days traveling 100 km searching the savannah for remote communities for whom her mobile immunization clinics are the only protection against deadly disease.
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Neema Baynet
Overall Sentiment: -0.0260044
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| 0 | "A week before we set off, we send out a message to the communities and ask them to spread the word that we are coming so we can vaccinate as many children as possible," says Baynet. |
| 0 | "A week before we set off, we send out a message to the communities and ask them to spread the word that we are coming so we can vaccinate as many children as possible," says Baynet. "Tell them the chanjos [vaccines] are coming. Bring your children!" |
| 0 | "We do not often see lions," says Baynet, ... |
| 0 | "We do not often see lions," says Baynet, "but we can hear them at night and see their tracks by day." |
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Arusha
Overall Sentiment: -0.0210041
Relevance: 0.50236
Gelai Lumbwa
Overall Sentiment: -0.107275
Relevance: 0.414879
Narangrang Laiseri
Overall Sentiment: -0.277713
Relevance: 0.400629
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| -0.374374 | "There was an outbreak of measles here last August and a lot of children became very sick," says Narangrang Laiseri, ... |
| -0.139724 | "There was an outbreak of measles here last August and a lot of children became very sick," says Narangrang Laiseri, from Gelai Lumbwa. "They took them to hospital, but five from this area died. I was lucky -- my son had been vaccinated against measles and he was one of the ones who got better quickly." |
| 0.0798851 | "Of course we know how important it is to vaccinate our children," says Laiseri. |
| 0.0479937 | "Of course we know how important it is to vaccinate our children," says Laiseri. "Whenever we hear the vaccinators are coming, people bring their children. But sometimes they are so far away, they do not hear about the vaccination in time." |
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Chris Endean
Overall Sentiment: 0.0314697
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Nasieku Engishon
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Osmand Swai
Overall Sentiment: 0.697204
Relevance: 0.241122
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| 0.0485126 | "When a child falls sick in such areas, the greatest problem is getting them medical help," says Osmand Swai, ... |
| -0.0240588 | "When a child falls sick in such areas, the greatest problem is getting them medical help," says Osmand Swai, clinical officer at a health center in the Maasai village of Gelai Lumbwa. "They have to be carried over vast distances to reach the nearest doctor. When they arrive, they are usually in a very bad condition." |
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Yussuf Makame
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.241049
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| 0 | "We have a strategy to reach every child with vaccination and we engage communities in planning and implementing it," says Yussuf Makame, ... |
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Jakaya Kikweke
Overall Sentiment: 0.0968082
Relevance: 0.236332
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Company: GAVI Alliance Partners
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Organization: GAVI Alliance
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Technology: vaccines
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