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15.07.2025

Qualitative Research in Health – Social Science & Medicine has published the results of the Covid-19 Africa Study

  • COVID-19 Emergency
  • Global Health
  • The study ‘Clarifying doubts about the COVID-19 vaccine; the role of social imaginaries of epidemics in northern Sierra Leone’ (IPERVAC-SL) provides new socio-anthropological perspectives based on narratives about the pandemic in the country. The study adopted qualitative methodologies including a literature review, focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and participant observation in two districts of northern Sierra Leone: Port Loko and Bombali.

    The findings, now published, will enable better strategies for future epidemics and is one of the few qualitative studies conducted in Africa on the impact of COVID-19 on vaccination systems.

    Congratulations to the researchers and team, Yara Alonso, Abu Bakarr Jalloh , Kwabena Owusu-Kyei , Augustin E. Fombah, Clara Menéndez, Mohamed Samai, Cristina Enguita-Fernàndez.

    You can consult the article in:

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321525000691?via%3Dihub

    The project received support from the Glòria Soler Foundation in 2022 and its preliminary results were presented at the headquarters of the Suñol/Glòria Soler Foundation.

    https://www.isglobal.org/-/covid-vacunas-sierra-leone-ebola

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