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Africa: Vaccine Hesitancy 'Widens Immunity Gaps, Increases Risk of Outbreaks'
allAfrica, 29 August 2023
In 1999, Grade 5 brought for me a revelation like no other - vaccines! The idea that weak disease-causing organisms could transform our bodies into warriors against killer diseases… Read more »
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Cameroon: Cameroon Vaccinates for Measles, but Says Hesitancy Persists
VOA, 7 July 2023
Officials in Cameroon say vaccine hesitancy is preventing them from inoculating millions of children for childhood diseases in the first major campaign since the COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »
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Africa: Vaccine Hesitancy Is One of Greatest Threats to Global Health - And the Pandemic Made It Worse
The Conversation Africa, 4 July 2023
The COVID pandemic has disrupted many areas of routine healthcare including, importantly, childhood vaccination. Read more »
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South Africa: Measles and Whooping Cough Outbreaks in South Africa - a Sign of Low Vaccination Coverage, Experts Warn
The Conversation Africa, 15 June 2023
The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000-2020,… Read more »
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Nigeria: How the All-Babies Programme Is Encouraging Vaccination Uptake Through Cash Incentives
Nigeria Health Watch, 12 June 2023
In Dawanau Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) located in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State, Zainab Aliyu cradles her seven-month-old daughter, Fatima Abdulhamid.… Read more »
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South Africa: Vaccine Hesitancy - Covid Experience Highlights Conspiracies, Mistrust and Role of Media
The Conversation Africa, 26 January 2023
In recent weeks, China has reported a spike in new cases of COVID and related deaths. Some countries have imposed travel restrictions as a result. But most - including South Africa… Read more »
Vaccine Hesitancy Widens Immunity Gaps, Increases Outbreak Risks
In 1999, Grade 5 brought for me a revelation like no other - vaccines! The idea that weak disease-causing organisms could transform our bodies into warriors against killer diseases was nothing short of miraculous. From the top of my head I remember that some of the killer diseases were polio, diptheria, measles, whooping cough, tetanus and tuberculosis, writes allAfrica's Sethi Ncube.
InFocus
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Nigeria is facing a devastating diphtheria outbreak, which has killed at least 600 people, mostly children, since December 2022. This is worse than the 2011 outbreak, which h Read more »
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More than 60 million children globally did not receive out on one or more essential vaccinations between 2019 and 2021 due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and Read more »
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Health authorities in Burundi have announced that they had identified eight samples of polio, marking the country's first outbreak of the disease in over 30 years. The World ... Read more »
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From the widespread outbreak of Mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in 2022, to the evolving bird flu situation, to recent cases of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guine Read more »
