| Autor: |
Alhaffar M; Syria Research Group (SyRG), The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.; Department of Global Health & Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK., Douedari Y; Syria Research Group (SyRG), The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.; Department of Global Health & Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.; Free Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria., Howard N; Syria Research Group (SyRG), The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.; Department of Global Health & Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.; Free Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria.; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore. |
| Abstrakt: |
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is a new phenomenon in Syria, about which relatively little is known. We aimed to explore this, drawing from 37 semi-structured interviews with frontline health-workers and service-users across Syria's major military areas-of-control. We found COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was common and increasing among service-users and less common, but still present, among health-workers in all areas. Interrelated reasons included pragmatic fears of novel vaccine risks, unreliable information, and conflict-related hesitancies as a form of resistance or reasserting some perceived control, particularly outside Al-Assad government-controlled areas. Vaccine hesitancy has thus become a socio-political issue, requiring macro-level responses, across Syria. |
