Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health: The Immunity Charm

Afghanistan's Ministry of Health created a bracelet for children to wear showing their immunisation history in the absence of paper records.

The summary

In Afghanistan, the infant mortality rate was 115 per 1000 live births, the worst in the world, with a vaccination completion rate of less than 50%. Years of conflict and deep rooted traditional biases meant doctors had to work without proper immunisation history. Parents simply did not see merit in getting their children vaccinated or maintaining vaccine records.

By identifying an existing cultural symbol of protection and giving it a new meaning, we created a new way for doctors to communicate with each other in absence of proper hospital records while encouraging the mothers to get their children...

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