Vaccine barriers: Insecurity, suspicion will mar COVID-19 inoculation programs in Africa war zones
NITA BHALLA and MOHAMMED OMER, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the barriers to distributing COVID-19 vaccines in war-torn parts of Africa…
Public mistrust thwarts Congo’s Ebola response as cases climb
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation A quarter of people surveyed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola hotspots believed the virus was not real, a study said on Wednesday, as the world’s second-biggest outbreak spreads. Health workers said public mistrust is now the biggest obstacle to stopping the epidemic, which has infected more than 1,000 people in […]