Accurate, balanced reporting on vaccines is vital as countries around the world forge ahead with Covid-19 vaccine roll-out programs. A global vaccine apartheid is unfolding with surplus vaccines in some parts of the world and a slow trickle of vaccination in many other parts. There are concerns about variants and a deluge of news to digest.
To better support and equip journalists to report on vaccines now and in the future, Internews has launched Let's Talk Vaccines, a comprehensive interactive e-learning course in five modules. Journalists who take the course can expect to walk away with a sound grasp of vaccine science, as well as story ideas about the many public health and human rights aspects of access to diagnosis, treatment, immunization and recovery.
Participants will learn about various facets of the vaccine story, including:
- vaccine science;
- equitable access;
- the logistics of rollout; and
- the concerns that get in the way of confidence in vaccines.