This guidebook supports the use of the tools on understanding and addressing behavioural and social drivers (BeSD) of vaccine uptake. It guides programmes, partners and researchers to understand the reasons for low uptake, using globally field...

This is a link to a post on how to generate demand for Covid-19 vaccination,This is a link to a post on how to generate demand for Covid-19 vaccination

Report that outlines the findings from the study on COVID-19 vaccine demand promotion drawing on the qualitative data gathered from Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa and South Sudan,Report that outlines the findings from the study on COVID-19 vaccine...

The page provides ways of tacking vaccine inequity by promoting demand for immunization through social listening. It also provides other resources relevant to the topic,The page provides ways of tacking vaccine inequity by promoting demand for...

Guinée Bissau: Analyse de la réponse du pays à la COVID-19 et identification des meilleures pratiques et des lacunes cruciales à prendre en compte dans les futurs plans d’intervention pratiques exemplaires.,Guinée Bissau: Analyse de la...

Somalia: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future response plans,Somalia: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future...

Botswana: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future response plans,Botswana: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future...

Syria: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future response plans,Syria: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future response...

Bhutan: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future response plans,Bhutan: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future response...

The Gambia: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future response plans,The Gambia: Analysis of country COVID-19 response, identifying best practices and crucial gaps to factor into future...

Tanzania: Promoting access and mitigating barriers to COVID-19 vaccination amongst older people

Vietnam: Hearing and addressing people's Covid-19 vaccine-related concerns in Viet Nam

Tanzania: Use of event-based vaccination to increase Covid-19 vaccination

Solomon Islands: Increasing Covid-19 vaccine demand through transferring knowledge and promoting community-led actions

Pakistan: Lessons on use of vaccination-related restrictions to generate demand for Covid-19 vaccine

Nigeria: Evaluating the use of co-created messages and trusted messengers to improve COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Northern Nigeria​

Nigeria: Covid-19 vaccination learnings and best practices

Ghana: Use of an online communication campaign to address vaccine hesitancy caused by misinformation from social media

Fiji: Use of social listening to improve vaccine messaging and increase vaccine demand

Le présent manuel accompagne l’utilisation des outils sur les facteurs comportementaux et sociaux de la vaccination pour comprendre ce qui incite à se faire vacciner. Il s’adresse aux responsables des programmes de vaccination
et aux autres...

Ethiopia: Ethiopia Red Cross Society Covid-19 immunization response

Cote d'Ivoire:Using rumor management system data to develop adaptive COVID- 19 vaccination strategies

Cote d'ivoire: Innovative and effective strategies of enhancing vaccine confidence and uptake and risk communication and community engagement with an emphasis on high-risk and vulnerable groups​

ESARO: Addressing gender related challenges for Covid-19 vaccination

Burkina Faso: Jhpiego support to Covid-19 vaccination

Syria: Bringing the service closer to communities and reducing vaccine hesitancy

Cote d'Ivoire: Risk communication stakeholders need access to timely, focused information on public sentiment and rumors

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Robb Butler (WHO EURO), Nicola Christofides (U. Witwatersrand), Susan Goldstein (Soul City Inst.), Ann Lindstrand (Public Health Agency of Sweden)

This guidebook supports the use of the behavioural and social drivers (BeSD) tools to understand what drives uptake of vaccines. It is intended for immunization programme managers and others collecting, analysing and using data for vaccine programme...

L’égalité des genres constitue un droit fondamental de l’être humain et un puissant moteur pour améliorer les résultats sanitaires dans le monde entier. Les interventions de vaccination ne parviendront à augmenter la couverture vaccinale...

This manual was developed to support countries in effectively responding to events which may erode the public’s trust in vaccines and the authorities that deliver them. In addition, a small section of this manual focuses on how to best prepare for...

On August 17-20, 2020, the Forum on Microbial Threats at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a 4-day virtual workshop titled The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines: Tackling Issues of Access and Hesitancy. The...

Vaccination is the most effective and cost-efficient approach to protect both individual and community health. Decreased vaccination rates have been reported in many countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we compared the vaccination...

Rumors and conspiracy theories, can contribute to vaccine hesitancy. Monitoring online data related to COVID-19 vaccine candidates can track vaccine misinformation in real-time and assist in negating its impact. This study aimed to examine COVID-19...

Although vaccines are considered one of the most effective medical interventions to prevent vaccine preventable disease and associated morbidity and mortality, a number of recent outbreaks are threatening the gains made by vaccines. Vaccine...

Behavioral science offers several ideas about what it takes to get people to vaccinate. Colleagues and I previously reviewed the evidence for these propositions and put forward what has become known as the Increasing Vaccination Model. To make the...

Measuring Behavioural and Social Determinants (BeSD) of vaccination and turning them into interventions

0:00 - Summary of the latest evidence and open research questions, Julie Leask. 16:10 - Evidence and lessons learned on social sciences analytics around vaccination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Simone Carter. 30:19 - Case Study: the...

Community engagement should be at the centre of all COVID-19 vaccine introduction activities. This document contains tips and discussion topics to be considered in vaccine delivery and demand, as well as guiding steps to ensure a safe and...

This operational tool provides an overview of key activities and considerations to achieve high acceptance and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. Among other critical actions, the Demand Planning Tool emphasizes the need for social listening and...

Misinformation threatens the success of vaccination programs across the world. Unicef, First Draft, Yale Institute for Global Health, and PGP (The Public Good Projects) have partnered to create the Vaccine Misinformation Management Field Guide. This...

Why was there a loss of vaccine confidence in the Philippines? What were the consequences of this confidence crisis? How was this issue addressed?

There is growing evidence of vaccine delays or refusals due to a lack of trust in the importance, safety, or effectiveness of vaccines, alongside persisting access issues. Although immunisation coverage is reported administratively across the world,...

Immunization to prevent infectious diseases is a core strategy to improve childhood health as well as survival. It remains a challenge for some African countries to attain the required childhood immunization coverage. We aim at identifying...

This report from the 2019 meeting of the Sabin-Aspen Vaccine Science & Policy Group highlights that although vaccination remains a well-accepted social norm worldwide, a combination of factors—including the spread of misinformation on social...

Background Students experience fear, pain, and fainting during vaccinations at school. While evidence-based interventions exist, no Knowledge Translation (KT) interventions have been developed to mitigate these symptoms. A multidisciplinary...