Decolonising vaccine production: Unpacking Ghanaians' support for made-in-Africa vaccines.

Africa Coronavirus Decolonising Nationalism Vaccines

Journal

Vaccine: X
ISSN: 2590-1362
Titre abrégé: Vaccine X
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101748769

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Historique:
received: 16 09 2022
revised: 24 02 2023
accepted: 14 03 2023
medline: 4 4 2023
entrez: 3 4 2023
pubmed: 4 4 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Localisation of vaccine production is essential worldwide, but it is particularly crucial for Africa. This continent is more vulnerable to disease burdens and also lags behind other continents regarding access to vaccines. Moreover, many people in Africa have a long-standing apathy towards locally made products and services. This mindset raises the question of whether Africans will support African-made vaccines and what the associated reasons are. Guided by the theories of nationalism and import substitution industrialisation, we formulated and tested eight hypotheses. To answer these, we analysed survey data from 6,731 residents backed by key informant interviews in Ghana. Our findings identified three types of local vaccine consumers:

Identifiants

pubmed: 37008957
doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2023.100283
pii: S2590-1362(23)00024-4
pmc: PMC10064421
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

100283

Informations de copyright

© 2023 The Author(s).

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Auteurs

Charles Atanga Adongo (CA)

University of Cape Coast, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Ghana.
Emperiks Research, University of Cape Coast Stadium Avenue, Cape Coast, Ghana.
School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Derek Anamaale Tuoyire (DA)

University of Cape Coast, College of Health and Allied Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Department of Community Medicine, Ghana.

Muniru Azuug (M)

University of Education, Winneba, Faculty of Social Science Education, Department of Economics Education, Ghana.

Anthony Baffour Appiah (AB)

University of Cape Coast, College of Health and Allied Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Department of Community Medicine, Ghana.

Francis Taale (F)

University of Cape Coast, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, School of Economics, Department of Economic Studies, Ghana.

Iddrisu Amadu (I)

Emperiks Research, University of Cape Coast Stadium Avenue, Cape Coast, Ghana.

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