Before generalizing the vaccine, the population has to trust its safety and benefit. Voluntary community health agents – almost always women – who receive a small stipend from NGOs or governments for monitoring the health of neighbors in rural areas, will be fundamental in this chapter.
These figures are common in sub-Saharan Africa, where much of the population lives far from primary care centers. The volunteers are trained in certain ailments, sexual and reproductive health or nutrition, to do field work. And it will be up to them, as Ong’ayo did, to explain to families with young children why malaria puts them in greater danger, how immunization can help prevent infection and, very importantly, that they maintain habits such as sleeping under mosquito nets. , close the houses before sunset and clear their fields.
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