November 11: Carlos Bavo at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Carlos Bavo (University Institute of Lisbon) presents:
VACCINES IN MOZAMBIQUE: FROM REVOLUTION TO “DEMOCRACY”
November 11, 14:00-16:00 CET
Humboldt University of Berlin
Online-only seminar
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The use of vaccines in Mozambique dates back to the colonial period, but their expansion to the majority of the African population occurred during the years of the revolution, in campaigns carried out between 1976 and 1978. At that time, vaccines, through such campaigns, became a mechanism of state occupation of the national territory imposed from the top, but even so without opposition from the population. The revolutionary environment in which people lived, with strong confidence in the new institutions, favored adherence to vaccines, but in the 1980s, with the expansion of armed conflict, vaccination ceased to reach the entire population. The creation of the Expanded Program on Immunization (PAV, in Portuguese) integrated vaccines into primary health care for newborns, while public health emergencies created “pandemic publics”, making vaccines both popular and controversial, as never before in Mozambique. The apparent crisis of confidence in public institutions and, to a certain extent, also in Non-Governmental Organizations, combined with the impact of the infodemic, has contributed to a negative trend in the continuum that is vaccine hesitancy. This seminar will show, based on documentary sources and interviews, the still very brief history of vaccination in Mozambique since 1975, the year of the country's independence, paying particular attention to how populations receive this public health technology from that time.
CARLOS BAVO is fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, in portugues) of Portugal and a PhD candidate at the University Institute of Lisbon department of African Studies. He holds a master degree in the same field and a degree in Sociology from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM, Mozambique). His thesis is titled “‘Health Communication and Vaccination Processes in Mozambique.” He has worked as a researcher at the Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM), at the Centre for African Studies at UEM, and currently at the Centre for International Studies (CEI) at ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon.
November 11: Carlos Bavo at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Carlos Bavo (University Institute of Lisbon) presents:
VACCINES IN MOZAMBIQUE: FROM REVOLUTION TO “DEMOCRACY”
November 11, 14:00-16:00 CET
Humboldt University of Berlin
Online-only seminar
Sign up for the Zoom link by clicking here and filling out this form.
The use of vaccines in Mozambique dates back to the colonial period, but their expansion to the majority of the African population occurred during the years of the revolution, in campaigns carried out between 1976 and 1978. At that time, vaccines, through such campaigns, became a mechanism of state occupation of the national territory imposed from the top, but even so without opposition from the population. The revolutionary environment in which people lived, with strong confidence in the new institutions, favored adherence to vaccines, but in the 1980s, with the expansion of armed conflict, vaccination ceased to reach the entire population. The creation of the Expanded Program on Immunization (PAV, in Portuguese) integrated vaccines into primary health care for newborns, while public health emergencies created “pandemic publics”, making vaccines both popular and controversial, as never before in Mozambique. The apparent crisis of confidence in public institutions and, to a certain extent, also in Non-Governmental Organizations, combined with the impact of the infodemic, has contributed to a negative trend in the continuum that is vaccine hesitancy. This seminar will show, based on documentary sources and interviews, the still very brief history of vaccination in Mozambique since 1975, the year of the country's independence, paying particular attention to how populations receive this public health technology from that time.
CARLOS BAVO is fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, in portugues) of Portugal and a PhD candidate at the University Institute of Lisbon department of African Studies. He holds a master degree in the same field and a degree in Sociology from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM, Mozambique). His thesis is titled “‘Health Communication and Vaccination Processes in Mozambique.” He has worked as a researcher at the Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM), at the Centre for African Studies at UEM, and currently at the Centre for International Studies (CEI) at ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon.
