COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among indigenous people in Yemen: An incipient crisis

Aisha Abdulaziz Almoughales; Sarya Swed; Bisher Sawaf; Hidar Alibrahim

doi:10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103206

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among indigenous people in Yemen: An incipient crisis

Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2022 Jan:73:103206. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103206. Epub 2021 Dec 24.

Authors

Aisha Abdulaziz Almoughales¹, Sarya Swed², Bisher Sawaf³, Hidar Alibrahim²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Sana'a University Sana'a, Yemen.
² Faculty of Human Medicine,Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria.
³ Department of Internal Medicine,Syrian Private University, Damascus, Syria.

Abstract

There are many reasons that push Yemenis not to take the Corona vaccine, as the deteriorating health and living reality as a result of the war and the destruction that afflicted the country created a state of ignorance and backwardness and prevented the arrival of awareness and education campaigns regarding the importance, effectiveness and safety of taking the vaccine, all of which put the Yemeni people in a state of hesitation, fear and Ignorance about the risks of not taking the vaccine.

Keywords: COVID-19 vaccine; Indigenous people; Vaccine hesitancy; Yemen.