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Vaccines are not just medicine. They are mirrors. They show us who we are, what we value and whose lives we’re willing to protect.

The role of qualitative research in addressing vaccine hesitancy: lessons for public health in South Africa

Conducting qualitative research takes time and effort, but it interrogates essential contexts and meanings that shape our health and healthcare

  • Derek Davey
5 min read
Peking: A woman in a blue coat takes a throat swab from a woman for a Covid-19 test. Before the People’s Congress in China, participating media representatives had to have a Covid test. (Photo by Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Global health equity undermined by US propaganda against Chinese Covid-19 vaccines

Six months before the first jabs arrived, an online survey in January of 2021 showed that nearly 60% of the 7 193 respondents were confident in a Covid-19 vaccine made in the US or Europe

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read