Feelings towards COVID-19 vaccination in Africa

On Dec 17, the results of a survey by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) provided some promising news. “The findings go a long way towards the way we frame risk communication around the vaccine and also the...

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Published in:The Lancet infectious diseases 2021-03, Vol.21 (3), p.324-324
Main Author: Samarasekera, Udani
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Communication
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - prevention & control
COVID-19 - psychology
COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 Vaccines - administration & dosage
desk
Disease control
Emotions
False information
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Hygiene
Infectious diseases
Medical research
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Polls & surveys
Public health
Risk communication
SARS-CoV-2 - immunology
SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Surveys and Questionnaires
Vaccination - psychology
Vaccines
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Summary:On Dec 17, the results of a survey by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) provided some promising news. “The findings go a long way towards the way we frame risk communication around the vaccine and also the way we approach our community in terms of the deployment strategy for COVID vaccines”, the survey's co-principal investigator Raji Tajudeen, head of public health institutes and research at Africa CDC (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), told The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Susan Goldstein, deputy director of South African Medical Research Council/WITS Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (Johannesburg, South Africa), thinks the misinformation stems in part from a dearth of positive public communication around vaccines.
ISSN:1473-3099
1474-4457
DOI:10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00082-7