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Cranky Uncle uses misinformation tricks to confuse people about vaccines. Play the Cranky Uncle Vaccine game and learn to spot these tricks so you won’t be fooled! Find out the scientific facts on vaccines and become more resilient to vaccine misinformation.

Play the Rwanda Cranky Uncle Vaccine game:
iPhone and Android apps, and web browser game are available in English, French, and Kinyarwanda.
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Characters

Meet the Rwanda Cranky Uncle Vaccine game characters.

Cartoon characters from the East African version of the game

Partners

Thank you to our partners for support in bringing Cranky Uncle Vaccine to Rwanda.

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Rwanda Research Study: Explanatory Statement

The Cranky Uncle Vaccine game aims to help individual participants become more accurately informed about vaccination and better able to identify vaccine misinformation. University of Rwanda, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, University of Melbourne, UNICEF, and the Sabin Vaccine Institute are working together on a research study to improve people’s ability to detect vaccine misinformation. The research will assess the effectiveness of the Cranky Uncle Vaccine game to teach critical thinking. See the Rwanda explanatory statement for more information about this research.

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