If you're wondering about vaccine hesitancy in Africa, it's really worth thinking about the experience with polio vaccinations and how to convince local populations to treat it as a priority.
This isn't rocket science and we did it with polio, but you have to actually do the work and learn the lessons rather than just going "muh vaccine hesitancy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
Key lesson: You gotta explain why you're treating this as a prioirity when people are still dying in huge numbers of cholera/TB/HIV which rich countries seem far less concerned about.
The disconnect between the sense of urgency around polio and seeming lack of urgency around malaria, lack of clean water and sewerage and all the more everyday problems of extreme poverty etc bred a lot of mistrust.
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