the women in Sare Gibel already had heard the rumors on social media: The vaccines could make your blood stop or cause you to miscarry. Women who took it wouldn't get pregnant again.
As health officials in Gambia and across Africa urge women to be vaccinated, they ve confronted unwillingness among those of childbearing age. Other women say they re simply more afraid of the vaccine than the virus.
SARE GIBEL, Gambia The health outreach workers who drove past Lama Mballow s village with a megaphone handed out T-shirts emblazoned with the words: I GO.