Tan­z­a­nia Part 6: Mon­key­pox and Polio

To free up nur­ses for the polio cam­paign, the Coro­na vac­ci­na­ti­on cam­paign was sus­pen­ded for the peri­od of three days. Alt­hough the vac­ci­na­ti­on was declared vol­un­t­a­ry, many peo­p­le per­cei­ved it as com­pul­so­ry. One infor­mant repor­ted that schools had also been writ­ten to recom­mend vac­ci­na­ti­on for child­ren under 5, but that par­ents were allo­wed to deci­de indi­vi­du­al­ly whe­ther to accept the offer. wei­ter­le­sen…

Tan­z­a­nia Part 4. The vac­ci­na­ti­on cam­paign in Tan­z­a­nia under Magufuli’s heirs

Unli­ke her pre­de­ces­sor, the new pre­si­dent, Samia Sulu­hu Hassan, sup­ports the vac­ci­na­ti­on cam­paign pro­mo­ted by the WHO, among others, and pushed it for­ward. She was also the first to be vac­ci­na­ted against Covid-19 on 28 July 2021 as a „role model“ for her com­pa­tri­ots. Howe­ver, the­re were also voices that doub­ted that the Pre­si­dent had been injec­ted with more than just a placebo.
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