In East and Southern Africa region, COVID-19 Vaccine campaign is facing to an evident gender gap with women’s intention to be vaccinated lower than men’s. This data snapshot takes a deeper look into potential reasons for vaccine hesitancy among ESAR women, as well as highlighting some specific access related issues they face.
In this Media Dialogue, a journalist in the region shared her experience reporting on COVID during this period of issue fatigue, and answered some of these questions based on her own working lives. They was led on July 13 by Adele Baleta. Adele is an award-winning science writer, editor, facilitator and media consultant. She is a vaccine safety communications advisor to the WHO and a member of the South African National Advisory Group on Vaccine Hesitancy. Adele is expert at bridging the gap between scientists and journalists, and making science accessible to the public. Adele shared her views and tips on how journalists can deal with the challenges they face in providing essential health coverage in a time when governments, societies, and, yes, editors, seem to want to move on from the pandemic and other health issues.
Call for submission
Does your organisation have experience with advocating for the inclusion of young people within global, regional, and local COVID-19 Community Engagement? The Collective Service’s Youth Engagement Subgroup YES! via the Collective Helpdesk and with the support of UNICEF, UNAIDS, UN WOMEN and the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action is putting out a call for submission to document, analyse, and promote good practices in youth engagement and youth leadership in COVID-19 response.
We will select six good practices to make into case studies and disseminate them through international communication platforms and promote them in a special global webinar hosted by the Collective Service, GOARN and YES!, the Youth Engagement Subgroup. To take part in the showcase, YES! invites you to review the Call for Submission available in English, French, and Spanish and submit your good practices via this Google Form. We urge you to submit only ONE good practice at a time through the Google Form. For any questions, please contact the Collective Helpdesk.
Deadline to apply: August 31st, 2022.