"High priority communities who face unique challenges to vaccination can benefit from strong community engagement practices that are community centered and led and build trust and confidence in vaccines..This is particularly relevant to the strong influence that social norms play in supporting vaccination." Strong community engagement has been cr
After coming to learn that it is a lack of vaccination which poses a threat to health, particularly for people living with HIV, Joshua is angry at those who have promoted “misleading stories about the vaccine, its effects, the motivations behind its creation”. That is why Joshua decided to play his part. In June this year, he became one of 40 Vaccine Champions to undergo
A total of 40 Vaccine Champions have undergone training on COVID-19 public sensitisation, myths and misconceptions, developing effective communication strategies, and working with data collection tools, among other insightful topics to increase vaccine uptake in the country. The two-day Vaccine Champions training was held in Accra and Kumasi as those…
Jill Hunsaker Ryan worked 60 straight days at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, often logging 15 hours straight in front of her computer while leading the state’s response to the crisis.…