Background Vaccination against the novel coronavirus is one of the most effective strategies
for combating the global Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. However, vaccine …

Declining trends in vaccine confidence come at a time when routine immunization coverage
for children has slumped to a decades-long low. With some of the largest losses in …

Believing conspiracy narratives is frequently assumed to be a major cause of vaccine
hesitancy, ie, the tendency to forgo vaccination despite its availability. In this scoping review …

Current WHO/UNICEF estimates of routine childhood immunization coverage reveal the
largest sustained decline in uptake in three decades with pronounced setbacks across …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in the closure of schools to
slow the spread of the virus across populations, and the administration of vaccines to protect …

Background: The COVID-19 infection is a novel virus that mainly targets the respiratory
system via specific receptors without any coronavirus-targeted therapies. Many efforts have …

COVID-19 vaccination rates have been low among adults in Kenya (36.7% as of late March
2023) with vaccine hesitancy posing a threat to the COVID-19 vaccination program. This …

ABSTRACT COVID-19 is a major public health threat associated with increased disease
burden, mortality, and economic loss to countries and communities. Safe and efficacious …

Holistic interventions to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy require a system-level
understanding of the interconnected causes and mechanisms that give rise to it. However …

Background At the time of the emergence of COVID-19, denialist and anti-vaccine groups
have also emerged and are shaking public confidence in vaccination. Methods A qualitative …