Publications by authors named "Ifeanyi Nsofor"
Behavioral Insights from Vaccine Adoption in Nigeria: Cross-Sectional Survey Findings.
Interact J Med Res
February 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to gather behavioral insights for effective COVID-19 vaccination interventions in Nigeria using an inexpensive digital survey approach.
- It utilized a cross-sectional survey design with over 900 respondents, leveraging social media for recruitment and data collection through a Meta Messenger chatbot.
- Results indicated that 56% of participants had received at least one vaccine dose, with key motivators for vaccination being the perceived benefits for quality of life and social activities.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake among adolescent girls is critical to reducing the burden of HPV-related cancers in Nigeria. This study assesses the factors influencing caregivers' acceptance of HPV vaccination for their charges, using the Fogg Behavior Model (FBM) as a theoretical framework. We analyzed cross-sectional data from 1429 caregivers of girls aged 9-17 in six Nigerian states, using a survey instrument based on the FBM.
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- The COVID-19 pandemic posed significant challenges for vaccination efforts, especially in low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria, where vaccine hesitancy and social norms play a crucial role.
- A study evaluated a social media campaign aimed at promoting COVID-19 vaccination across Nigeria in 2022, analyzing changes in vaccination rates over a 10-month period among participants from treatment and non-treatment states.
- Results showed increased vaccination rates in states with the campaign, particularly between baseline and the first follow-up, highlighting the effectiveness of social media strategies and the influence of positive social norms on vaccination uptake.
Decolonising global health evaluation: Synthesis from a scoping review.
PLOS Glob Public Health
November 2022
As decolonisation awareness and activism amplifies in the mainstream masses and within academic realms across a variety of fields, the time is right to converge parallel movements to decolonise the fields of global health and evaluation by restructuring relations of dependency and domination reified through the "foreign gaze"1 or "white gaze." We conducted a review of relevant records with the following inclusion criteria-they define or advocate for the decolonisation of global health evaluation or explicate methods, policies or interventions to decolonise global health evaluation published by advocates of the decolonisation movement from both fields. These records were derived following a systematic article search by the lead autthor on Google, Google Scholar, NewsBank, and PubMed using the following keywords: "decolonising" and "global health," "evaluation," or "global health evaluation" replicating a digital search strategy utilized by scoping reviews across a variety of topics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 calls for health systems strengthening in Africa: A case of Nigeria.
Int J Health Plann Manage
November 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven the need for countries worldwide to implement strategies that promote health systems strengthening and ensure epidemic preparedness. Many African countries are burdened by fragile healthcare systems, hence, this paper emphasises the need for African policymakers to improve healthcare quality in their countries. Through a brief review of various online literatures concerning health systems strengthening in Africa, this paper focuses on the nature of healthcare in Nigeria amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs of May 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic had reached 187 countries with more than 3.7 million confirmed cases and 263,000 deaths. While sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has not been spared, the extent of disease is currently far less than in Europe or North America leading some to posit that climatic, genetic or other conditions will self-limit disease in this location.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Evaluation on implementation of the African programme for onchocerciasis control in Nigeria].
Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban
June 2012
Objective: To investigate the progress and challenges of the implementation of the global programme in Taraba State, Nigeria.
Methods: The African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) as the first neglected tropical diseases (NTD) control initiative in Africa had been introduced to Nigeria since 1997. Community-directed distributors of community-directed treatment with ivermectin had been adopted as its main strategy.