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Applying “Reaching Special populations”

Read case studies about ways vaccine hesitancy has been addressed throughout the world. Design a plan for your own context.
Four young children, two boys and two girls, seated on a door step, observe as another very young child receives the oral polio vaccine from a woman wearing a hijab and carrying a backpack.
© Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Please read pages 40 to 50 of this document: Rejection of the Polio Vaccine: A Multifaceted Problem with Deep Roots.

Thinking of all the different ways the polio campaign has tried reaching special populations and overcome vaccine hesitancy as described in the reading and the lectures, think about your own context.

Brainstorm what a vaccination “plus plus plus plus” service might look like in your context.

Please take a moment to post your thoughts in the discussion.

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