Uganda: Authorities ramp up campaign on yellow fever amid vaccine hesitancy

Uganda launched a mass vaccination campaign in April against the mosquito-borne disease, yellow fever. They hoped to reach millions of people but vaccine hesitancy has left hundreds of unused doses in hospitals across the country.

There is no specific treatment for the potentially deadly yellow fever virus. There is, however, a vaccine which can give lifetime protection against the disease according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

At a university in the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala, these students turned up for their jabs as part of the government’s mass vaccination programme.

This was the campaign’s second phase, it was supposed to run between April 2nd and…