Vactraca
Design to reduce child mortality
Working with the challenges in healthcare systems in low-income countries, our goal was to help mothers take control of their babies vaccinations. The Vactraca necklace enables immunisation records to be kept by a child's parent in a simple, low-cost way. 2,000 Vactraca necklaces were tested in a pilot in South-Sudan in 2025 with the aim of expanding across Africa.
In remote areas of countries such as South Sudan or Nigeria, hundreds of thousands of infants do not complete their routine immunisations. With no digital records and inconsistent access to medical services, paper vaccine cards are often lost and parents can’t remember what vaccines have or haven’t been administered.
Vactraca founder, Victoria, had first hand experience of this during her work with UNICEF and approached Morrama to help develop a product that mothers could keep with them that would act as a more clear and permanent record of their babies vaccines.
Design
The necklace has seven discs, each representing a stage in the infants early life at which vaccines are administered. The relevant vaccines are printed onto the disc, enabling them to be tailored to the country of use and a bespoke ink has been used to enable the medical professional to permanently mark off the vaccines given at each visit.
