Researchers have expressed the need to engage the private sector to understand the benefits of their participation in vaccine distribution and delivery process to improve efficiency and effectiveness in order to ease the burden on the government.
They also stressed the need for a stakeholders' meeting for deeper understanding of the government's policy and agenda on health interventions, including vaccines delivery to improve access.
These came to light at a dissemination and validation meeting held in Accra on study titled: 'Equitable Access to and uptake of the COVID-19 Vaccines, especially the disadvantage and vulnerable groups in Ghana.' This was collaborative qualitative research by the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA), the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) undertaken in Accra from January, 2024 to December, 2024.
Ghana experienced some challenges in the procurement and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines, following the global outbreak of the pandemic in 2019, necessitating scientists to investigate into the issues and make recommendations to mitigate such challenges in future pandemics.
