Addressing disruptions in childhood routine immunisation services during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from Nepal, Senegal and Liberia
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Sameer M Dixit, Moussa Sarr, Daouda M Gueye, Kyle Muther, T Ruston Yarnko, Robert A Bednarczyk, Adolphus T Clarke, Fatoumata Diakhite, Aliou Diallo, Bonheur Dounebaine, Shankar B Duwadi, Anna S Ellis, Nancy Fullman, Nathaniel Gerthe, Jhalak S Gautam, Kyra A Hester, Gloria Ikilezi, Rokhaya S Mbengue, Souleymane Mboup, Birahim P Ndiaye, Rajesh Man Rajbhandari, David E Phillips, Matthew C Freeman
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While routine immunisation (RI) was among the health services most affected during the earlier phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, country programmes employed various mitigation strategies to maintain vaccine delivery and/or resume interrupted programming.
As Biden pushes his vaccine campaign, he faces a deep-seated distrust of the medical establishment among Black communities that have long faced mistreatment at its hands.
Biden s vaccine push runs into distrust in the Black community
Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Frances Stead Sellers, The Washington Post
Feb. 13, 2021
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Michelle Chester administers a coronavirus vaccine to Dr. Yves Duroseau at Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Dec. 14.photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Blesener.
Former Tuskegee, Ala., mayor Johnny Ford rolled up his right sleeve and smiled behind his mask as the first dose of coronavirus vaccine entered his arm - a televised display of faith he hoped would save Black families from suffering.
Ford became mayor soon after the disclosure of the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male in 1972, and he spent years seeking justice for victims of the abominable government-run program. Now he s trying to persuade Black people that vaccines fast-tracked by that same government are not only safe, but vital.
Print article In Philadelphia, public health officials think block captains may be more effective than football stars in persuading people to get coronavirus vaccines. Researchers in the Navajo Nation anticipate that directives about the shots will have to be reworded to resonate with Native people. And in Atlanta, where a federally funded project has been working with community leaders to increase minority participation in clinical trials, physicians have a lesson to learn in how to talk to patients about vaccines. Memo to docs? More empathy. Less authority. These messaging strategies are aimed at winning over vaccine fence-sitters in much the way political campaigns target would-be voters. But in the life-or-death battle against the coronavirus, as much as 70% of the population must roll up their sleeves in the next few months to achieve herd immunity and stop the virus’s spread. And, unlike well-oiled political machines, public health officials say they are having to q
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