A Togolese child.

Togo Red Cross volunteer Sandra Sewavi goes door-to-door to inform residents of the upcoming vaccination campaign during which time insecticide treated bed nets (ITN) will also be distributed. Sandra explains the purpose and proper use of ITNs to a woman from her neighborhood in Katanga, a suburb of Lome.

Red Cross volunteer holds a child with a flag of Togo during the launch of a week long integrated health campaign targetting 900,000 children under five to be vaccinated against measles and polio and to fight malaria will given one insecticide treated bed net each. In addition 600,000 children between ages 2 and five will be given deworming medicine medendazole.

A nurse from the Togolese Minister of health fills a syringe with the measles vaccine at a vaccination site in he town of Kpalimé.

A mother and child have just received their free insecticide treated bed net (ITN). 900,000 ITNs will be distributed this week.

Resident of Momo village dances as Togo Red Cross volunteers play music to get people enthusiastic about the upcoming week long integrated health campaign.

Togo Red Cross volunteers use theater in an effort to teach people about malaria, its causes and the use of bednets in its prevention.

A child takes home insecticide treated bednets distributed by Togo Red Cross volunteers at a sight just outside Lome.

A member of the Togolese Ministry of Health administers the oral polio vaccine (OPV) to a child at a vaccination post in the town of Kpalimé.

Parents and children wait in line in the town of Kpalimé to have their children vaccinated and to receive an insecticide treated bed net for free. Togo Red Cross volunteers help with organising the queues and with regisatration.

Togo Red Cross volunteer registers children at vaccination post.

Six-year-old Marco Togbe lies in a bed conforted by his grandmother at the l`Hopital de Be in Lome. Stricken with cerebral malaria, Marco has only recently woken from a coma. Once a normal child, he now suffers from severe brain damage.

Togo Red Cros volunteers sing and play music for the residents of Momo village to get them enthusiastic about the upcoming integrated health campaign.