Misinformation fuelled by the US health secretary is creating a dangerous – and growing – lack of trust in vaccines
Conducting qualitative research takes time and effort, but it interrogates essential contexts and meanings that shape our health and healthcare
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
The government’s most urgent to-do list: vaccinate, stimulate the economy, and return the rule of law
Omicron has shown up the racism of the West and highlighted inequalities and failures in our own countries. We need to tackle these to get more people vaccinated
Imraan Coovadia’s new book examines how poison has shaped political affairs in Southern Africa
Once South Africa secured adequate amounts of vaccines, we were faced with a baffling dilemma. Not everyone wanted to take it
If ivermectin had dramatic results in combating Covid-19, it should perform well in any well-conducted, unbiased scientific study, but this is not the case
Paddy Harper finally got his second Covid-19 jab, but he feels that it’s pity there’s no vaccine for stupidity — or arrogance
South Africa’s laws allow the government to implement mandatory Covid vaccinations but, if it chooses this path, it must do so responsibly
There are few, if any, studies to support Pfizer chief executive’s assertion that the global south would be more vaccine-hesitant than the north
Study finds most South Africans rely on healthcare workers for vaccine advice
President Cyril Ramaphosa told parliament that nobody should be forced to have the vaccine, but constitutional rights were not absolute
Vaccine acceptance has risen to 72%, but inequality remains the biggest stumbling block for poor people’s access to the jab
Hesitancy is this week’s theme: from white men who don’t want a jab, to Bushy Maape, who doesn’t seem all that keen on his new job
‘Red light’ as numbers getting vaccinated dips because most don’t people don’t have medical aid or are victims of misinformation — and health department needs to ‘improve user experience’
We ask the infectious diseases specialist 18 questions about the Covid-19 pandemic: from how to counter vaccine hesitancy to whether life will ever return to ‘normal’
Paediatrician Alastair McApline says that the reasoning Angelo Ryan uses to justify this position in an M&G opinion piece is ‘specious and flawed’
Vaccines save lives. But why don’t we want to hear why people do not want to get the Covid-19 vaccine? It is important we get the right messaging across for us to achieve herd immunity.
The Covid jab might keep you out of hospital should you still get ill, but that does not invalidate other worries
According to an Afrobarometer survey of 1 600 people, the majority of people do not trust the government to deliver safe vaccines
Minority communities and developing-country populations may approach health services cautiously – and with good reason, given the medical profession’s history of inhumanity. But, by blaming low Covid-19 vaccination rates on vaccine hesitancy, the profession is effectively using this history to victimise the same communities again
South Africa’s stop-start roll-out is not the only reason herd immunity is unrealistic for 2021. A constrained vaccine supply and new variants also play a role
Testing and isolating the infected are still the most effective response to the pandemic
Refuting lies about vaccines from people in leadership positions may be less about changing their minds and more about protecting those listening