June 2023

Using Defaulter Tracing Tracker Shelves Model Targeting Young and Adolescent mothers to increase Utilization of Immunization Services in Kwale County

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Emmanuel Katama1, Elizabeth Omondi, Francis Nanga1, Happiness Oruko1, Felix Makasanda, John Kutna1 Background: Immunization defaulter tracing has been a challenge in most rural parts of Kwale County due to inefficient approaches such as unstructured tracing of defaulters especially the young and adolescent mothers, no proper tracking records and generally reactive defaulters tracing utilized to access …

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Staging Youth as Buffers Against Vaccine Misinformation: World Immunization Week 2023

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The unprecedented rapidity with which the COVID-19 vaccines were developed advanced an already existing fear within the masses. The fear of vaccines was augmented to an extent that it rivalled fear of the virus itself. While some of the rationales underlying this fear were reasonable, most were based on psychological perceptions and misconceptions. This phenomenon …

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Youth as Drivers of Vaccine Equity: World Immunization Week 2023

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I am Laura, a medical student and a Sickle Cell Disease advocate, partly because the disease is highly endemic where I come from but also because I have experienced firsthand the mortality associated with SCD. Now you might be asking yourself what is the link between SCD and vaccination, people with SCD are at increased …

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The Big Catch Up – Where to Start: World Immunization Week 2023

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I remember my first time hearing the term immunization, I was around ten years in class 6 for the Kenyans who did the 8-4-4 system, and I thought, my, what a big word. My science teacher began explaining immunization, and my brain cells were blown.   “The BCG vaccine is given at birth. It’s injected …

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