Presentation

Credibility of Community Mobilisers as Messenger in Community-Based Vaccine Trials

Misconception, Illiteracy, and poverty resulted in mistrust of the health delivery system manifested as resistance to polio vaccination among the marginalized population. The UP SMNet formed by CORE Group Polio Project and Unicef deployed community mobilization coordinators for community mobilization to participate in Polio campaigns. These highly skilled mobilizers restored trust and improved vaccination coverage. To do the vaccine trial the community mobilizers who were from the same community supported the study by mobilizing families and enrolling the required number of children.