SynthesisFrontiers in public health2022
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and associated factors in 13 African countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Acceptance-Hesitancy of COVID-19 Vaccination and Factors Affecting It in Adults: Systematic Review Study.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2024Pooled it
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Pooled it
- Understanding perceptions towards COVID-19 vaccination and strategies to increase vaccine uptake among Ebola- affected communities in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Gender equity and COVID-19 vaccine policies for pregnant people: a global analysis.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: Prevalence, Health Facility Enablers and Barriers among Adult Tuberculosis Patients across Nairobi County Clinics, Kenya.Journal of tuberculosis research · 2025Article
- Feasibility and Effectiveness of Vaccines for COVID-19: An Umbrella Review.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2025Review
- Coronavirus disease-19 vaccine uptake, willingness for vaccination, and associated Factors among chronic follow patients attending in the two comprehensive specialized hospitals of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Tailoring COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies in High-Seroprevalence Settings: Insights from Ethiopia.Vaccines · 2024Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of tests for infection, serological testing, and photography to define need for interventions against trachoma.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Global Analysis of RTS, S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine Acceptance Rates and Influencing Factors: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- The pervasive association between political ideology and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Brazil: an ecologic study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination coverage in hypertensive patients with Omicron infection in Shanghai, China.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the entire world, especially sub-Saharan Africa. As a result, researchers and government agencies are working to create effective COVID-19 vaccinations. While vaccination campaigns are moving rapidly in high-income nations, COVID-19 is still ruthlessly affecting people in low-income nations. However, this difference in the spread of the disease is not because of a lack of a COVID-19 vaccine but mainly due to people's reluctance. As a result, this review summarized the data on COVID-19 vaccination adoption and factors related among nations in sub-Saharan Africa. Method: Comprehensive searches were conducted using PubMed, Embase, Medline, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and the Cochrane Library databases. The risk of bias and methodological quality of each published article that fit the selection criteria were evaluated using Critical Appraisal Checklist tools. All statistical analysis was done by STATA 16. Results: This review was based on 29 studies with 26,255 participants from sub-Saharan Africa. Using a random-effects model, the pooled prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among study participants was 55.04% (95 % CI: 47.80-62.27 %), I Conclusion: This analysis showed that respondents had a decreased pooled prevalence of COVID-19 vaccination acceptance. Sex, attitude, knowledge, government trust, and COVID-19 testing were statistically significantly correlated characteristics that affected the acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine. All stakeholders should be actively involved in increasing the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine and thereby reducing the consequences of COVID-19. The acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccination can be increased by using this conclusion as an indicator for governments, healthcare professionals, and health policymakers in their work on attitude, knowledge, government trust, and COVID-19 testing.
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