This newsletter developed by Breakthrough ACTION in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service shares experiences and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Articles share how the program was able to improve COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake overall and especially to reach vulnerable communities and address the needs of pregnant women.
Source: Breakthrough ACTION Ghana Newsletter #1
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The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project rolled out several approaches to increase COVID-19 vaccination coverage among older adults in DKI Jakarta, West Java, Banten Province, Central Java, and the Special Region of Yogyakarta.
Source: Protecting older adults in Indonesia through COVID-19 vaccination
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A large international study has confirmed the findings of a previous U.S. study that linked COVID-19 vaccination with an average increase in menstrual cycle length of less than one day. The increase was not associated with any change in the number of days of menses (days of bleeding).
Source: Study confirms link between COVID-19 vaccination and temporary increase in menstrual cycle length
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With the COVID-19 pandemic entering its fourth year, we asked UNICEF health experts to explain what we now know about the best ways for pregnant women to protect themselves and their babies.
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South Africa’s National Department of Health has published new guidelines for the care of mothers and newborns in the context of the ever-present threat of COVID-19. The guidelines incorporate new scientific and operational evidence. The aim is to ensure that clinical care for mothers, babies and children during the pandemic remains relevant, practical and evidence-based.
Source: How South Africa is integrating COVID
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This article explains how giving more attention to harm reduction and less attention to abstinence from risky behaviors improves messaging on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: More Harm Reduction, Less Abstinence-Only in COVID Messaging, Experts Say
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First introduced in the Eastern and Southern Africa region (ESAR) in February 2021, 68 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered to date, and the available supply of vaccines in the region is expected to continue to increase significantly in 2022.
Ensuring acceptance and uptake of COVID-19 vaccination at country level is key to successful reduction of transmission and containment of the pandemic. However, introducing any new vaccine – especially with new target populations, through potentially new delivery strategies is challenging.
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This is a document explaining the importance of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa, as they make up 70% of the population.
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The SIAP Elderly Hero Competition Currently as an integral part of the SIAP Campaign, is aimed to encourage vaccination coverage for the elderly. Supported by the USAID through the Breakthrough ACTIONS for COVID-19 program Indonesia, has collaborated with the Directorate of Health Promotion and Community Empowerment, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia to conduct a complete COVID-19 vaccination program campaign for community groups. through public service advertisements on television, outdoor media, social media and digital media to encourage the achievement of complete COVID-19 vaccination until September 2022.
As part of the SIAP campaign, the Elderly hero competition uses an approach “from the elderly to the elderly” encouraging their fellow elderly the get full dose of COVID-19 vaccination and overcome challenges to get vaccinated.
The SIAP Elderly Hero Competition, which was held from March to the end of April 2022, succeeded in capturing 529 elderly people from 10 regencies/cities, namely Dumai City and Kampar Regency (Riau), Pasuruan Regency and Lumajang Regency (East Java), Kubu Raya Regency and North Kayong Regency. (West Kalimantan), Sinjai and Bantaeng regencies (South Sulawesi), and Kupang and South Central Timor (NTT) regencies. The elderly candidates were obtained by registering themselves voluntarily, searching from health center data, or searching directly from house to house.
From hundreds of candidates, the competition has chosen 10 elderly heroes. These ten figures has carry out a series of socialization of the complete dose COVID-19 vaccination through talk shows on local district/city radio, IG Live campaigns and social media through collaboration with local influencers, as well as holding sharing sessions at several community events.
Source: Elderly Heroes Competition – Tools and Media (Talk show, social and news media)
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Throughout 2021, CARE launched 45 locally-led campaigns in 20 countries applying lessons learned during an eight-week training series with Meta. In the second half of 2021, participating countries built on their learnings from their first campaigns and attempted to answer new questions that arose all while creating culturally appropriate messaging to encourage the adoption of preventative behaviors and/or to build trust in the vaccine, even if it wasn’t yet available.
Source: COVID-19 and Meta: Social and Behavioral Change Communication Learnings from 20 Countries
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