Declining trends in vaccine confidence across sub-Saharan Africa: A large-scale cross-sectional modeling study.

ABSTRACT: Current WHO/UNICEF estimates of routine childhood immunization coverage reveal the largest sustained decline in uptake in three decades with pronounced setbacks across Africa. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has induced significant supply and delivery disruptions, the impact of the pandemic on vaccine confidence is less understood. We here examine trends in vaccine confidence across eight sub-Saharan countries between 2020 and 2022 via a total of 17,187 individual interviews, conducted via a multi-stage probability sampling approach and cross-sectional design and evaluated using Bayesian methods. Multilevel regression combined with poststratification weighting using local demographic information yields national and sub-national estimates of vaccine confidence in 2020 and 2022 as well as its

SUBMITTER: de Figueiredo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10294724 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature