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- Vaccine hesitancy is a growing problem around the world, especially in places like Latin America and Africa.
- This review looks at studies from 2015 to 2020 to see if those regions have similar reasons for hesitancy as countries in the global North, like the USA and Canada.
- It finds that challenges like access to vaccines, cultural beliefs, and historical issues are important for understanding vaccine hesitancy in the Global South and may not be considered by people in the North.
Article Abstract
The complex phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy has been causing increasing global concern. This systematic review aims at analysing the state of art of scientific literature concerning vaccine hesitancy in Latin America and Africa, observing if: (i) they use the same research trends as the global North; and (ii) the parameters recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and taken from the experience of the global North are adequate to the Global South's context. This review analyses empirical, qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-study publications, from 2015 to 2020, available at five different databases. The studies produced in the Global South bring up important context-specific issues, such as issues of access (that are not included in the WHO's definition of vaccine hesitancy), cultural and religious issues, reactions to governments, reactions to recent episodes of vaccine tests on populations, and reactions to past of colonial violence. Initiatives to understand the phenomenon based on methodological and conceptual frameworks from the global North alone can cause wrongful conclusions.
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