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Sierra Leone: Mobile health teams bring COVID-19 vaccination to hard-to-reach communities, December 2022
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Sheka after receiving his first COVID-19 vaccine in Mamanso, Sierra Leone, on 7 December 2022.
He had earlier refused to take the vaccine, but after seeing a friend take it he decided he would get his first dose.
“I was afraid before - I thought I would die if I had it,” he said. “But when I saw my friend take it, I thought it must be fine. I’m really happy now because I don’t want to be the only one without it! When they come back for the booster I will get that too.”
Mamanso and Mansunthu villages are located next to one another in Karene District, Sierra Leone, approximately 65 kilometres from the nearest major city, Makeni. The nearest health facility serving the villages is in the chiefdom headquarter town Kamaranka, which is about five kilometres away on small dirt roads that are often only accessible by motorbike or on foot. The two villages are separated by a one-kilometer track that is only accessible on foot and requires crossing a locally made bamboo bridge during months when the river level is high. Many of the 50 residents living in Mansunthu are elderly and are unable to make the river crossing.
The vaccination team is made up of community mobilisers and two nurses from the Kamaranka Community Health Post. The nurses take commercial motorbike taxis to reach Mamanso village and then continue on foot, making the river crossing to Mansunthu village. The community mobilisers work with partner organisation GOAL Ireland and speak the local language, Temne.
Most people in these communities had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 before, even though vaccine teams had visited the area previously. On previous visits many of the farmers were already working in their fields, and the people who remained in the village were afraid to accept the vaccine. Since then, the community has received further sensitization and seen other people take the vaccine safely.
In January 2022, WHO, UNICEF and Gavi established the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP) to intensify support to COVID-19 vaccine delivery. Working with governments and essential partners, CoVDP provided urgent operational support to the 34 countries that were at or below 10% full vaccination coverage in January 2022 on their pathways toward achieving national and global coverage targets. The greatest benefits of this approach were increases in full vaccination and booster coverage for in both general and high-priority populations – older adults, healthcare workers, and persons with co-morbidities, including immunocompromised persons.
Read more about the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership.
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Photo produced in collaboration with UNICEF
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https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccine-delivery-partnership
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12/07/2022
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Sierra Leone
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Mamanso
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North West Province
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AFRO
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