Lady Tureiti Moxon, an interim board member of the Māori Health Authority which Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare has described as a “game changer for our people”. And Māori health provider Te Kōhao Health is calling for greater leadership and has ramped up its own swabbing and vaccination service in response to the latest Covid case in the city. LAWRENCE SMITH/Stuff The FONO vaccination pop-up in Te Atatū South is trying to raise Covid-19 jab rates in Auckland's Pasifika community. “We're fighting battles on all sides, because people are just being resistant to the vaccination.”MARK TAYLOR/Stuff Kym Tipene swabs Jerrie Uerata at the Te Kōhao Health testing and a vaccination centre at their Hamilton marae. Te Kōhao Health had done well reaching its older population, but vaccination rates fell away among those younger than 50 and rangatahi.

Source: Stuff October 04, 2021 02:38 UTC