Study: Tanzania herbal medicine bias caused Covid response delay
A health worker on July 28, 2021 administers a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against the Covid-19 during a mass vaccination campaign, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; a country which is one of the last countries in the world to start inoculating its people against the disease. PHOTO | STRINGER | AFP
A new study has identified widespread dependence on traditional medicines, often in preference to conventional vaccines as one of the key factors that defined the general public response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Tanzania.
According to the study findings, public acceptance of the current government’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign introduced in mid-2021 was also complicated by denial of the pandemic adopted by the previous administration under the late John Magufuli.
