16/02/2026
"When he is not out vaccinating children, Andisa is teaching the communities about the importance of vaccines and how immunisation has helped to control deadly disease, to reduce vaccine hesitancy. Otherwise, he is in his office drawing up plans to improve vaccine coverage.
Indeed, Andisa has helped to develop a database of almost every household in the Twa community in his catchment area. Every child who is vaccinated is included in this mobile health information system: their names, date of birth, village, vaccines received, the date of the next vaccine appointment and their parent’s [or guardian’s] phone number. This has enabled vaccinators at B*H to text or call mothers when their kids’ vaccination date is due."
In this story published by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, John Agaba highlights the work of Andisa Davis, a community nurse at Bwindi Community Hospital, who is reaching Batwa children and vaccinating them against deadly diseases.
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When Andisa was growing up in southwestern Uganda, the Twa people lived in forests and mistrusted outsiders – let alone western medicine and vaccines. Today, the health worker is helping to change that.
