Peace Crops says the vaccine hesitancy among the Higaonon in Bukidnon is not just rooted in cultural beliefs but is mainly a result of disinformation.
BUKIDNON, Philippines – Public health front-line workers in the hinterland villages of Talakag town in this province managed to beat the cultural apathy toward COVID-19 vaccination among indigenous people.Higaonon teenagers and their elders sat and waited for their turn to get inoculated at a covered basketball court amid a light rain in the hinterland village of Tikalaan in Talakag town in late February.
Fearing the unknown, the whole family was reluctant at first about the COVID-19 vaccines, but they had a change of mind as soon as they saw their Higaonon leaders getting vaccinated. One non-governmental organization, Peace Crops, has been providing all the tarps, posters, and other information materials for the four Higaonon villages.The information materials, written in Higaonon, became valuable tools in curbing vaccine hesitancy among the Higaonons in Talakag town.
LINING UP. Higaonon teenagers line up at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination center in Barangay Tikalaan, Talakag, Bukidnon. Gamat admitted that he feared the needle. “I kept looking at it, and I just closed my eyes,” he remembered. Peace Crops was given funding by an international aid agency to design a communication strategy to counter vaccine hesitancy among the Lumad in Bukidnon.From these meetings, the NGO learned that the vaccine hesitancy among the Higaonon was not just rooted in their cultural beliefs but mainly as a result of disinformation, including false information they heard on radio and watched on TV.
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