Health
Coronavirus vaccine: Can solar fridges helping vaccinate African children work for COVID-19? – Sight Magazine
As the development of COVID-19 vaccines gains pace, PEYTON FLEMING, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at the challenge of providing proper refrigeration…
02 November 2020
PEYTON FLEMING
Boston, USThomson Reuters Foundation
Dozens of children at a clinic in North Kivu, on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo, received a measles vaccine in May, made possible by a quiet revolution in refrigeration that keeps vaccines cold, even in places without reliable electric power.
The “solar direct-drive” refrigerators plain, box-like coolers that do not require fuel or batteries – have helped boost child vaccinations in DRC’s poorest rural…
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