Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys

Recent debates surrounding the lagging COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in low-income countries center around vaccine supply and financing. Yet, relatively little is known about attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines in these countries and in Africa in p...

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Main Authors:	Kanyanda, Shelton, Markhof, Yannick, Wollburg, Philip, Zezza, Alberto
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	COVID-19 VACCINATION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY PUBLIC HEALTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/916971627475781284/Acceptance-of-COVID-19-Vaccines-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Evidence-from-Six-National-Phone-Surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36039

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spelling	okr-10986-360392021-07-30T05:10:38Z Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys Kanyanda, Shelton Markhof, Yannick Wollburg, Philip Zezza, Alberto COVID-19 VACCINATION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY PUBLIC HEALTH Recent debates surrounding the lagging COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in low-income countries center around vaccine supply and financing. Yet, relatively little is known about attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines in these countries and in Africa in particular. This paper provides cross-country comparable estimates of the willingness to accept a COVID-19 vaccine in six Sub-Saharan African countries. It uses data from six national high-frequency phone surveys in countries representing 38 percent of the Sub-Saharan African population (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda). Samples were drawn from large, nationally representative sampling frames providing a rich set of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics which are used to disaggregate the analysis. The findings show acceptance rates to be generally high, with at least four in five people willing to be vaccinated in all but one country. Vaccine acceptance ranges from nearly universal in Ethiopia (97.9 percent) to below what would likely be required for herd immunity in Mali (64.5 percent). Safety concerns about the vaccine in general and its side effects emerge as the primary reservations toward a COVID-19 vaccine across countries. These findings suggest that limited supply, not inadequate demand, likely presents the key bottleneck to reaching high COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2021-07-29T12:59:21Z 2021-07-29T12:59:21Z 2021-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/916971627475781284/Acceptance-of-COVID-19-Vaccines-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Evidence-from-Six-National-Phone-Surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36039 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9739 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Burkina Faso Ethiopia Malawi Mali Nigeria Uganda
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description	Recent debates surrounding the lagging COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in low-income countries center around vaccine supply and financing. Yet, relatively little is known about attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines in these countries and in Africa in particular. This paper provides cross-country comparable estimates of the willingness to accept a COVID-19 vaccine in six Sub-Saharan African countries. It uses data from six national high-frequency phone surveys in countries representing 38 percent of the Sub-Saharan African population (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda). Samples were drawn from large, nationally representative sampling frames providing a rich set of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics which are used to disaggregate the analysis. The findings show acceptance rates to be generally high, with at least four in five people willing to be vaccinated in all but one country. Vaccine acceptance ranges from nearly universal in Ethiopia (97.9 percent) to below what would likely be required for herd immunity in Mali (64.5 percent). Safety concerns about the vaccine in general and its side effects emerge as the primary reservations toward a COVID-19 vaccine across countries. These findings suggest that limited supply, not inadequate demand, likely presents the key bottleneck to reaching high COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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author	Kanyanda, Shelton Markhof, Yannick Wollburg, Philip Zezza, Alberto
author_facet	Kanyanda, Shelton Markhof, Yannick Wollburg, Philip Zezza, Alberto
author_sort	Kanyanda, Shelton
title	Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys
title_short	Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys
title_full	Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys
title_fullStr	Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys
title_full_unstemmed	Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys
title_sort	acceptance of covid-19 vaccines in sub-saharan africa : evidence from six national phone surveys
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/916971627475781284/Acceptance-of-COVID-19-Vaccines-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Evidence-from-Six-National-Phone-Surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36039
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Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys

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