Questions and Answers about the COVID-19 Vaccine

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This page offers both the general public and health practitioners answers to basic questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. The questions include:

  • Is there a vaccine for COVID-19?
  • When will COVID-19 vaccines be ready for distribution?
  • How likely is it that safe, effective vaccines for COVID-19 will be developed?
  • How quickly could COVID-19 vaccines stop the pandemic?
  • What types of COVID-19 vaccines are being developed? How would they work?
  • How will we know if COVID-19 vaccines are safe?
  • Will other vaccines help protect me from COVID-19?
  • Will COVID-19 vaccines provide long-term protection?

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    How do Vaccines Work?

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    This page explains the body’s response to pathogens, how vaccines help, and herd immunity.

    Germs are all around us, both in our environment and in our bodies. When a person is susceptible and they encounter a harmful organism, it can lead to disease and death.

    The body has many ways of defending itself against pathogens (disease-causing organisms). Skin, mucus, and cilia (microscopic hairs that move debris away from the lungs) all work as physical barriers to prevent pathogens from entering the body in the first place.

    When a pathogen does infect the body, our body’s defences, called the immune system, are triggered and the pathogen is attacked and destroyed or overcome.

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      An Approach for Monitoring and Evaluating Community Mitigation Strategies for COVID-19

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      This document describes the approach of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s approach to evaluating community mitigation strategies and provides overarching considerations to support state, territorial, or local health departments, tribal health organizations, or others in monitoring and evaluating COVID-19 community mitigation strategies, including a logic model, suggested monitoring and evaluation questions, and potential data sources.

      The approach considers outcomes that minimize COVID-19 morbidity and associated mortality, effects of community mitigation strategies on long-standing health disparities and social determinants of health, and how communities thrive socially, emotionally, and economically.

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        Adapting Evaluation Designs in Times of COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Four Questions to Guide Decisions

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        This is a framework organized around four questions to address the ethical, conceptual, and methodological challenges that are affecting programmatic evaluation work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

        The questions are:

        • Should you adapt your evaluation questions and scope?
        • Can you improve what remains feasible?
        • Can you find ways around what is infeasible?
        • Can you tap into alternative sources of evidence?

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          Confiance Totale PSAs

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          In 2020, Breakthrough ACTION created the Confiance Totale brand and logo to generate trust in and demand for FP methods and services among women of reproductive age in ILN catchment areas.

          Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, WABA developed several Confiance Totale materials in collaboration with service delivery partner Amplify-FP and Ministries of Health. The campaign materials include IUD, injectable, oral contraceptive pill, implant, Standard Days, emergency contraception, and all-methods leaflets and two radio public service announcements (PSAs) in French and local languages that promote having confidence in the safety and efficacy of FP and in health centers and healthcare providers.

          Anticipating limited FP service and method access during COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, and subsequent potential complications tied to unplanned pregnancies and overcrowded and under-stocked health facilities, the WABA team pivoted its Confiance Totale mass media activities at the end of Q2 by drafting scripts for new radio spots. The new PSAs feature adapted calls to action, including:

          • Using this time at home together to discuss birth spacing with your partner
          • Continuing to use FP successfully without going to the health center by using call-in numbers
          • Ensuring you have FP method supplies while sheltering in place and/or during government restrictions on movement to avoid an unwanted pregnancy
          • Using exclusive breastfeeding to avoid unwanted pregnancy (for new moms)
          • Discussing postpartum family planning before going into labor
          • Using a mask and other COVID-19 risk reduction behaviors when going to the health center or pharmacy for FP methods

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            COVID-19 Billboards, Ethiopia

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            These billboards were produced to promote COVID-19 prevention throughout Ethiopia. Each has a different message with the theme of the campaign – Cover. Wash. Distance!

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              Nalamdana: Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation

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              This illustration-based video share the challenges of listening to misinformation – it can lead to risk of getting COVID-19. Friends gather (distanced and masked) around a tea shop and discuss what happened to an acquaintance who refused to listen to prevention messages and believed in quack methods to keep COVID-away.

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                COVID-19 Informative Comics: Don’t Forget to Wear Your Mask

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                This illustration indirectly reinforces the importance of wearing a mask before stepping out of the house. This illustration was designed by Angshuman Kashyap, a graphic designer from India that has created multiple illustrations to communicate effective information about COVID-19 prevention.

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