KRISTA LARSON and MARIA CHENG, of Associated Press, report on how vaccine hesitancy, including among women of childbearing age, is leading to a stark gender disparity resulting in African women being the least vaccinated population in the world.
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the women in Sare Gibel already had heard the rumors on social media: The vaccines could make your blood stop or cause you to miscarry. Women who took it wouldn't get pregnant again.
As health officials in Gambia and across Africa urge women to be vaccinated, they ve confronted unwillingness among those of childbearing age. Other women say they re simply more afraid of the vaccine than the virus.