COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Africa: a call to action

Affiliations

• ¹ National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia; Refuge Place International, Monrovia, Liberia.
• ² Refuge Place International, Monrovia, Liberia; Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Africa Center for Disease Control, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Electronic address: fallahm@africa-union.org.
• ³ Faculty of Medicine, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe; Faculty of Public Health, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
• ⁴ School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco; Regional Vaccine Research and Regulation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo; College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
• ⁵ School of Public Health, University of Parakou, Sainte-Rita, Cotonou, Benin.
• ⁶ Centre for Health Equity Zimbabwe, Equal Health Global Campaign Against Racism, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• ⁷ Department of Health Promotion and Education, School of Public Health, Ridgeway Campus University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
• ⁸ Gender Institute, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe.
• ⁹ Department of Public Health, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa.
• ¹⁰ COVID-19 Task Force, Democratic Republic of Congo President's Office, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
• ¹¹ UNAIDS, Durban, South Africa.
• ¹² Faculty of Medicine, Department of Lung Diseases, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
• ¹³ National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia.