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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Vaccine hesitancy and trust in sub-Saharan Africa
Beteiligte:
Unfried, Kerstin;
Priebe, Jan
Erschienen:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024
Erschienen in:
Scientific Reports, 14 (2024) 1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-024-61205-0
ISSN:
2045-2322
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AbstractLack of trust is a primary reason behind the global rise in vaccine hesitancy. Existing research on the trust—vaccine hesitancy nexus has almost exclusively focused on COVID-19 with the vast majority of studies examining industrialized countries. In this study, we investigated the influence of trust in different policy-relevant actors (government, science, media, pharmaceutical companies, society) on vaccine hesitancy for recently available vaccines related to polio and HPV which we benchmark against a COVID-19 vaccine. Leveraging unique primary data on 5203 individuals from six countries (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda), we showed that individuals’ trust in the government and society are key predictors of vaccine hesitancy. Furthermore, we demonstrated that these relationships are remarkably stable across vaccine, disease, and country contexts.