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Key Considerations: Improving Uptake of the COVID-19 Vaccine Amongst Women in South Sudan
(SSHAP, 2022-03-10)Disparities in vaccine equity exist on a global scale, but also within countries. While in high income countries slightly more women than men tend to be vaccinated, the opposite is true in low income countries. In South ... -
Key Considerations: Adherence to COVID-19 Preventive Measures in Greater Kampala, Uganda
(SSHAP, 2022-03-10)This brief sets out key considerations for risk communications and community engagement (RCCE) to promote adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures in greater Kampala, Uganda. It looks at adherence to COVID-19 preventive ... -
Key Considerations: Behavioural, Social and Community Dynamics Related to Plague Outbreaks in Madagascar
(SSHAP, 2022-03-08)This brief explores behavioural and community dynamics related to plague outbreaks in Madagascar. The aim is to support actors involved in plague response to acquire a deeper understanding of behavioural and cultural ... -
Key Considerations: Achieving COVID-19 Vaccine and Health Equity in Ealing and North West London
(SSHAP, 2021-11-30)This brief illustrates how COVID-19 vaccine (in)equity has played out on the ground and offers key considerations for how it can be improved in the North West London (NWL) borough of Ealing. We conducted a review of ... -
Evidence Review: Achieving COVID-19 Vaccine Equity in Ealing and North West London
(SSHAP, 2021-11-30)This review sets out key considerations for improving vaccine equity – as well as broader health equity – in the North West London (NWL) borough of Ealing. It foregrounds the political, economic and social dynamics which ... -
Evidence Review: COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance by Key Influencers in the MENA Region - Teachers and Healthworkers
(SSHAP, 2021-11-18)As COVID-19 vaccines have been deployed and scaled, concerns about vaccine acceptance have emerged. Effective management of the virus requires that communities everywhere buy into the public health measures designed to ... -
Evidence Review: Religious Marginalities and COVID Vaccination - Access and Hesitancy
(SSHAP, 2021-11-09)Religious minority affiliation or status can play a very important role in influencing people's access to vaccines as well as their willingness to undergo vaccination. Many studies focus on class, ethnicity and geographic ... -
SSHAP Key Considerations for Outbreak and Epidemic Preparedness Response in Côte d’Ivoire
(SSHAP, 2021-09-01)In August 2021, a suspected case of Ebola was identified at a hospital in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The patient had recently travelled from Labé, Guinea to Abidjan by road and was admitted to a hospital after experiencing a ... -
Review of the Evidence Landscape on the Risk Communication and Community Engagement Interventions Among the Rohingya Refugees to Enhance Healthcare Seeking Behaviours in Cox's Bazar
(SSHAP, 2021-07-22)This report is the first output in a body of work undertaken to identify operationally feasible suggestions to improve risk communication and community engagement efforts (RCCE) with displaced Rohingya people in Cox’s ... -
Key Considerations: India's Deadly Second COVID-19 Wave: Addressing Impacts and Building Preparedness Against Future Waves
(SSHAP, 2021-06-25)Since February 2021, countless lives have been lost in India, which has compounded the social and economic devastation caused by the second wave of COVID-19. The sharp surge in cases across the country overwhelmed the ... -
Data Synthesis: COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions in Africa: Social and Behavioural Science Data, March 2020-March 2021
(SSHAP, 2021-05-06)Safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 are seen as a critical path to ending the pandemic. This synthesis brings together data related to public perceptions about COVID-19 vaccines collected between March 2020 and ... -
Rapid Review: Perceptions of COVID-19 Vaccines in South Africa
(SSHAP, 2021-04-21)As of April 19, 2021, South Africa has recorded 1.56 million COVID-19 cases and almost 54,000 deaths - more than any other country on the African continent. The country has begun the national rollout of the Johnson & ... -
Smart Cities and COVID-19: Implications for Data Ecosystems from Lessons Learned in India
(SSHAP, 2021-03-25)This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in ... -
Key Considerations: Indigenous Peoples in COVID-19 Response and Recovery
(SSHAP, 2021-03-25)Indigenous peoples have experienced heightened vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic and face disproportionately high COVID-19 mortality. To better address these vulnerabilities, it is critical to adapt COVID-19 ... -
Key Considerations: 2021 Outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, the Context of N’Zérékoré
(SSHAP, 2021-03-23)This brief summarises key considerations about the social, political and economic context shaping the outbreak of Ebola in the N’Zérékoré prefecture, Guinea, as of March 2021. The outbreak was declared on 14 February 2021, ... -
SSHAP Roundtable: 2021 Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
(SSHAP, 2021-03-23)SSHAP convened a virtual roundtable of expert advisors on Friday 12 March 2021 to discuss the outbreak of Ebola in Guinea declared on 14 February 2021. At the time of writing (19 March 2021), there have been 18 cases (14 ... -
Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery
(SSHAP, 2021-01-26)As the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a need to robustly support vulnerable communities and bolster ‘community resilience.’ A community resilience approach means to work in partnership with ... -
Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks
(SSHAP, 2021-01-26)The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing social inequalities and vulnerabilities, with the most disadvantaged and marginalised groups bearing the greatest health, social, and economic burdens. Beyond documenting ... -
SSHAP: 6 Ways to Incorporate Social Context and Trust in Infodemic Management
(SSHAP, 2021-01-07)Information epidemiology or infodemiology is the study of infodemics - defined by the World Health Organization as an overabundance of information, some accurate and some not, that occurs during a pandemic or other significant ... -
SSHAP In-Focus: COVID-19, Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Recovery in India
(SSHAP, 2020-11-30)This paper addresses COVID-19 in India, looking at how the interplay of inequality, vulnerability, and the pandemic has compounded uncertainties for poor and marginalised groups, leading to insecurity, stigma and a severe ...
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