![]() Received: OctoAccepted: DecemPublished: January 13, 2022Ĭopyright: © 2022 Amit et al. PLOS Glob Public Health 2(1):Įditor: Dione Benjumea-Bedoya, Corporacion Universitaria Remington, COLOMBIA In all these efforts to improve vaccine uptake, governments will need to engage with communities to ‘co-create’ solutions.Ĭitation: Amit AML, Pepito VCF, Sumpaico-Tanchanco L, Dayrit MM (2022) COVID-19 vaccine brand hesitancy and other challenges to vaccination in the Philippines. Vaccination systems must also consider the needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups to ensure their access to vaccines. Strengthening health literacy is a critical tool to combat misinformation that undermines vaccine confidence. Recognising and addressing concerns at all levels are needed to improve COVID-19 vaccination uptake and reach. Perceptions about the inefficiency and inflexibility of the system also create additional barriers to the vaccine rollout in the country, especially among vulnerable and marginalised groups. Political issues contribute to vaccine brand hesitancy, resulting in vaccination delays and refusals. Social networks may either positively or negatively impact vaccination uptake, depending on their views on vaccines. Such perceptions are shaped by exposure to (mis)information amplified by the media, the community, and the health system. Our analysis showed that individual perceptions play a major role in the decision to vaccinate. To highlight the complex reasons for delaying and/or refusing COVID-19 vaccines, we embedded our findings within the social ecological model. All interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, translated, and analysed using inductive content analysis. The interviews were conducted in Filipino, Cebuano, and/or English via online platforms such as Zoom or via phone call. We interviewed 35 individuals from a subsample of 1,599 survey respondents 18 years and older in the Philippines. In this paper, we explored vaccination narratives and challenges experienced and observed by Filipinos during the early vaccination period. However, COVID-19 vaccine uptake is challenged by vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination sentiments, a global shortage of vaccine supply, and inequitable vaccine distribution especially among low- and middle-income countries including the Philippines. Effective and safe COVID-19 vaccines have been developed at a rapid and unprecedented pace to control the spread of the virus, and prevent hospitalisations and deaths. ![]()
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