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Talking about immunisation - A guide for healthcare workers

All you need to know to help you protect your community’s health, from birth to adulthood

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National Department of Health

About

This plain language guide is designed to help nurses, health promoters, community health care workers and social mobilisers to communicate with communities about the immunisation programme, from birth to adulthood. 

As healthcare workers, you play a critical role in promoting immunisation. Parents and caregivers trust you to give them accurate information about health, especially children’s health, and even more so during a disease outbreak. This guide aims to support you to address vaccine hesitancy, and to keep improving your vaccine knowledge through platforms that are regularly updated – and so help increase trust in vaccines and vaccinators.

The Guide is designed for easy dissemination online and through social media.

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Author(s)
Department of Health, UNICEF South Africa and Risk Communication and Engagement

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