Thread by @WHO

The @eu_echo & WHO are empowering health workers across 16 African countries.

🎯Goal: To increase #COVID19 vaccination coverage.

🧵on how health workers are reaching vulnerable populations and working with community leaders to ensure #HealthForAll.

🔗 bit.ly/3JOTBEQ

In times of crisis, leadership matters.

Bornalia Kuajo Peter, a community leader in #SouthSudan 🇸🇸, decided to take his #COVID19 vaccination in public.
Why⁉

To dispel fear and demonstrate that vaccines are safe.

#VaccinesWork

🔗 bit.ly/3JyIAWY

Nurse Rachida Ibrahim takes a motorbike 🏍️ and goes from village to village to ensure that every community is properly vaccinated. Her motto is no one should be left behind.

#HealthForAll.

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Malama Balki Rabiou, a key figure among Maradi’s traditional leaders in #Niger 🇳🇪, is fighting rumours about the #COVID19 vaccines. She says leading by example is key to countering false information.

#VaccinesWork

🔗 bit.ly/3XVXD3c

Nearly 2/3 of #Mozambique’s 🇲🇿 population has been fully vaccinated.

Julieta Jose, a resident of the Malika camp for internally displaced people, is one among them. She is happy that the health workers visited her!

#VaccinesWork

🔗 bit.ly/3JSUah7

Hajara Maimuna Idi is one of the 43 community-based volunteers in #Nigeria 🇳🇬 trained by WHO to mobilize their peers to get the vaccine.

#WHOImpact

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