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Community-Based Approaches to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Demand: Lessons Learned from Four UNICEF-Supported Interventions
Vaccination is critical to minimize serious illness and death from COVID-19. Yet uptake of COVID-19 vaccines remains highly variable, particularly among marginalized communities. This article shares lessons learned from four UNICEF interventions that supported Governments to generate acceptance and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10384848/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37514996 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11071180 |
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author | Hopkins, Kathryn L. Underwood, Talya Iddrisu, Iddi Woldemeskel, Hanna Bon, Helena Ballester Brouwers, Symen De Almeida, Sofia Fol, Natalie Malhotra, Alka Prasad, Shalini Bharadwaj, Sowmyaa Bhatnagar, Aarunima Knobler, Stacey Lihemo, Gloria |
author_facet | Hopkins, Kathryn L. Underwood, Talya Iddrisu, Iddi Woldemeskel, Hanna Bon, Helena Ballester Brouwers, Symen De Almeida, Sofia Fol, Natalie Malhotra, Alka Prasad, Shalini Bharadwaj, Sowmyaa Bhatnagar, Aarunima Knobler, Stacey Lihemo, Gloria |
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description | Vaccination is critical to minimize serious illness and death from COVID-19. Yet uptake of COVID-19 vaccines remains highly variable, particularly among marginalized communities. This article shares lessons learned from four UNICEF interventions that supported Governments to generate acceptance and demand for COVID-19 vaccines in Zambia, Iraq, Ghana, and India. In Zambia, community rapid assessment provided invaluable real-time insights around COVID-19 vaccination and allowed the identification of population segments that share beliefs and motivations regarding COVID-19 vaccination. Findings were subsequently used to develop recommendations tailored to the different personas. In Iraq, a new outreach approach (3iS: Intensification of Integrated Immunization) utilized direct community engagement to deliver health messages and encourage service uptake, resulting in over 4.4 million doses of COVID-19 and routine immunization vaccines delivered in just 8 months. In Ghana, a human-centered design initiative was applied to co-develop community-informed strategies to improve COVID-19 vaccination rates. In India, a risk communication and community engagement initiative reached half a million people over six months, translating into a 25% increase in vaccination rates. These shared approaches can be leveraged to improve COVID-19 vaccination coverage and close gaps in routine immunization across diverse and marginalized communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-103848482023-07-30 Community-Based Approaches to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Demand: Lessons Learned from Four UNICEF-Supported Interventions Hopkins, Kathryn L. Underwood, Talya Iddrisu, Iddi Woldemeskel, Hanna Bon, Helena Ballester Brouwers, Symen De Almeida, Sofia Fol, Natalie Malhotra, Alka Prasad, Shalini Bharadwaj, Sowmyaa Bhatnagar, Aarunima Knobler, Stacey Lihemo, Gloria Vaccines (Basel) Article Vaccination is critical to minimize serious illness and death from COVID-19. Yet uptake of COVID-19 vaccines remains highly variable, particularly among marginalized communities. This article shares lessons learned from four UNICEF interventions that supported Governments to generate acceptance and demand for COVID-19 vaccines in Zambia, Iraq, Ghana, and India. In Zambia, community rapid assessment provided invaluable real-time insights around COVID-19 vaccination and allowed the identification of population segments that share beliefs and motivations regarding COVID-19 vaccination. Findings were subsequently used to develop recommendations tailored to the different personas. In Iraq, a new outreach approach (3iS: Intensification of Integrated Immunization) utilized direct community engagement to deliver health messages and encourage service uptake, resulting in over 4.4 million doses of COVID-19 and routine immunization vaccines delivered in just 8 months. In Ghana, a human-centered design initiative was applied to co-develop community-informed strategies to improve COVID-19 vaccination rates. In India, a risk communication and community engagement initiative reached half a million people over six months, translating into a 25% increase in vaccination rates. These shared approaches can be leveraged to improve COVID-19 vaccination coverage and close gaps in routine immunization across diverse and marginalized communities. MDPI 2023-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10384848/ /pubmed/37514996 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11071180 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hopkins, Kathryn L. Underwood, Talya Iddrisu, Iddi Woldemeskel, Hanna Bon, Helena Ballester Brouwers, Symen De Almeida, Sofia Fol, Natalie Malhotra, Alka Prasad, Shalini Bharadwaj, Sowmyaa Bhatnagar, Aarunima Knobler, Stacey Lihemo, Gloria Community-Based Approaches to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Demand: Lessons Learned from Four UNICEF-Supported Interventions |
title | Community-Based Approaches to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Demand: Lessons Learned from Four UNICEF-Supported Interventions |
title_full | Community-Based Approaches to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Demand: Lessons Learned from Four UNICEF-Supported Interventions |
title_fullStr | Community-Based Approaches to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Demand: Lessons Learned from Four UNICEF-Supported Interventions |
title_full_unstemmed | Community-Based Approaches to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Demand: Lessons Learned from Four UNICEF-Supported Interventions |
title_short | Community-Based Approaches to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Demand: Lessons Learned from Four UNICEF-Supported Interventions |
title_sort | community-based approaches to increase covid-19 vaccine uptake and demand: lessons learned from four unicef-supported interventions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10384848/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37514996 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11071180 |
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