Fingerprints to track child vaccination histories in developing countries

Multispectral imaging fingerprint sensors are to be used as part of a tracking solution to stop vaccine waste for millions of Africans not yet vaccinated. Until now, vaccine delivery has been hampered by ineffective tracking and reporting and consequently millions of young children are not being vaccinated. An estimated 2.5 million born this year will die before the age of 5 Lumidigm’s fingerprint sensors will be used in a solution created by Fulcrum Biometrics. The delivery model in many parts of Africa depends on a multitude of healthcare workers who serve very large and remote areas. When there are no vaccination records to consult, many patients are re-immunized unnecessarily, others are simply missed and a finite supply of vaccine is wasted. Unfortunately, without a proper and reliable means of identification, vaccine wastage rates are higher than 50 percent in some of the most challenging geographies. Fulcrum’s solution aims to solve this problem with a...