It is critical that public healthcare authorities in malaria-endemic countries begin addressing the three Cs linked to vaccine hesitancy – confidence, complacency and convenience – before deploying the malaria vaccine.
Vaccinations are considered one of the most cost-effective means of preventing diseases, so the growing anti-vaccination sentiment poses a significant threat to global disease control and prevention efforts. The WHO is clearly very concerned about anti-vaccination sentiment, including vaccine hesitancy, in its
in informing and/or swaying vaccine sentiment. Easy access to unregulated digital platforms has enabled individuals and groups opposed to vaccination to rapidly disseminate misinformation on a global scale. This has been clearly demonstrated with the Covid-19 vaccine, where unsubstantiated claims by individuals, including respected scientists and Nobel Prize winners, have rapidly gained traction among the general population.