Uganda hospitals have hundreds of unused yellow fever jabs due to vaccine hesitancy
Hundreds of unused doses of yellow fever jabs have been left in hospitals in Uganda due to vaccine hesitancy. The East African country launched mass vaccination campaigns in 2023 and 2024, aiming to protect 27 million people, but only 12 million have been immunised. The single-dose vaccine has been offered free of charge to Ugandans between the ages of one and 60. Vaccination centres in the capital, Kampala, and elsewhere included schools, universities, hospitals and local government units. Before this, Ugandans usually paid to get the yellow fever shot at private clinics, for the equivalent o...