The authors state that researchers, governments and global agencies should proceed with particular care in the evaluation of candidate SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in LMICs, with effective communication to build trust and avoid generation of vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine efficacy is often highly variable betwee...n high-resource and low-resource settings
Archives of Disease in Childhood, vol.106 Issue 2
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                                                                This presentation presents the issues we confront in deciding how to communicate to the public that COVID-19 vaccine recommendations reflect the state of scientific knowledge.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                April 19,2021
MEDBOX Issue Brief no.12
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Vaccines 2021, 9(2), 160; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9020160
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This catalogue provides tools and information resources to support EU/EEA countries in addressing the challenging issue of vaccine hesitancy. The catalogue provides examples of practices that can serve as a resource for other countries. The project was developed in the context of ECDC’s support fo...r EU/EEA Member States in prevention and control of vaccine-preventable diseases, including effective communication to promote immunisation.
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                                                                In its report from 2014, the Working Group outlines the various factors influencing vaccine acceptance or refusal, and what can be done to create social norms around vaccine acceptance and to encourage the general public regarding the necessity of vaccination.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Psychiatrie de l'enfant
Chapitre B.2
Edition en français 
Traduction : Claire Rousseau 
Sous la direction de : Priscille Gérardin 
Avec le soutien de la SFPEADA
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Saúde Soc. São Paulo, v.30, n.1, e200450, 2021
Desde  março  de  2020,  quando  a  Organização  Mundial  de  Saúde  declarou  que  o  mundo  vivia  uma  pandemia  de  covid-19,  acompanhamos  um  quadro  sanitário  sem  precedentes  nos  últimos  100  anos.  As  medidas  atuais  contra  a  ...doença  têm  como  objetivo  o  controle  da  transmissão  e  envolvem  ações  individuais  e  coletivas  de  higiene  e distanciamento físico, enquanto a busca por uma vacina se apresenta como a esperança para vencer a pandemia. Considerando o contexto social de clamor por uma nova vacina, este ensaio crítico discute o paradoxo  e  as  contradições  da  relação  indivíduo-sociedade no contexto da covid-19 à luz da hesitação vacinal  como  fenômeno  histórico  e  socialmente  situado.  Este  ensaio  aponta  que  as  tomadas  de  decisão sobre (não) vacinar ou sobre (não) seguir as medidas  preventivas  e  de  controle  da  propagação  da  covid-19  são  conformadas  por  pertencimentos  sociais  e  atravessadas  por  desigualdades  que  tendem  a  se  exacerbar.  A  infodemia  que  cerca  a  covid-19 e a hesitação vacinal refletem a tensão entre  o  risco  cientificamente  validado  e  o  risco  percebido subjetivamente, também influenciada pela crise de confiança na ciência. Percepções de risco  e  adesão  a  medidas  de  saúde  extrapolam  aspectos subjetivos e racionais e espelham valores e  crenças  conformados  pelas  dimensões  política,  econômica e sociocultural.
Also available in Englisch http://www.scielo.br/j/sausoc/a/rQFs3PMLgZprt3hkJMyS8mN/?format=pdf&lang=en
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                                                                COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is currently one of the main obstacles to worldwide herd immunity and socioeconomic recovery. Because vaccine coverage can vary between and within countries, it is important
to identify sources of variation so that policies can be tailored to different population groups. ...In this paper, we analyze the results from a survey designed and implemented in order to identify early adopters and
laggers in six big cities of Latin America. We find that trust in government and science, accurate knowledge about the value of vaccination and vaccine effects, perceived risk of getting sick, and being a student
increase the odds to get vaccinated. We also identify potential laggers as women and populations between 20 and 35 years old who are not students. We discuss specific strategies to promote vaccination among
these populations groups as well as more general strategies designed to gain trust. These findings are specific to the context of Latin America insofar as the underlying factors associated with the choice to be
vaccinated vary significantly by location and in relation to individual-level factors.
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                                                                When situations occur in which unwanted events are rightly or wrongly connected with vaccination, they may erode confidence in vaccines and the authorities delivering them. This document presents the scientific evidence behind WHO’s recommendations on building and restoring confidence in vaccines ...and vaccination, both in ongoing work and during crises. The evidence draws on a vast reserve of laboratory research and fieldwork within psychology and communication. It examines how people make decisions about vaccination; why some people are hesitant about vaccination; and the factors that drive a crisis, covering how building trust, listening to and understanding people, building relations, communicating risk and shaping messages to the audiences may mitigate crises. This document provides a knowledge base for stakeholders who develop communication strategies or facilitate workshops on communication and trust-building activities in relation to vaccines and immunization, such as immunization programme units, ministries of health, public relations and health promotion units, vaccine safety communication trainers and immunization advisory bodies.
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                                                                Social and behavior change (SBC) professionals have often been tasked to find ways to influence knowledge, attitudes, and practices, about vaccines. Now that the COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available worldwide, renewed emphasis and urgency for SBC efforts arise.
To that end, WHO has offered thre...e factors that play a role in vaccine hesitancy, the first two of which can be addressed by SBC:    Complacency: Low perceived risk of vaccine-preventable diseases, and vaccination not deemed necessary. Other life/health issues are a greater priority. 
    Confidence: Low levels of trust in vaccines, in the delivery system, and in health authorities
    Convenience: Barriers related to geographic accessibility, availability, affordability, and acceptability of services
This resource page  provide a selection of SBC research, tools, and examples that aid in understanding this issue, especially in light of the recent availability of COVID-19 vaccines and the urgency for immunization worldwide.
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                                                                Herd immunity by mass vaccination offers the potential to substantially limit the continuing spread of COVID-19, but high levels of vaccine hesitancy threaten this goal. In a cross-country analysis of vaccine hesitant respondents across Latin America in January 2021, we experimentally tested how fiv...e features of mass vaccination campaigns—the vaccine’s producer, efficacy, endorser, distributor, and current population uptake rate—shifted willingness to take a COVID-19 vaccine. We find that citizens preferred Western-produced vaccines, but were highly influenced by factual information about vaccine efficacy. Vaccine hesitant individuals were more responsive to vaccine messengers with medical expertise than political, religious, or media elite endorsements. Citizen trust in foreign governments, domestic leaders, and state institutions moderated the effects of the campaign features on vaccine acceptance. These findings can help inform the design of unfolding mass inoculation campaigns.
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                                                                March 9, 2021
Here you can find a collection of useful manuals, videos, infographics and resource platforms.
The category "Vaccine hesitancy & myths" will be updated regularly with new documents, videos and information material. Please check this category within the COVID-19
https://medbox.org/fi...lter/602505261716D/toolbox/vaccination-strategy#GO
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                                                                The project aims to build trust around COVID-19 vaccines to ensure greater access to and uptake in the vaccines through establishing healthy information ecosystems to address mis- and disinformation and vaccine hesitancy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The bulletins are in French.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Issue Brief no. 16. 20 Sept 2021.
Many studies have shown the effectiveness of vaccination against COVID-19 and that it protects against severe
illness. A high vaccination rate is needed to combat the pandemic worldwide. Due to misinformation and myths,
there is still a great hesitancy to vaccina...te . With this Issue Brief, we would like to present various myths and provide
you with educational materials on the respective topics for communication in the MEDBOX
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                                                                Policy brief.
Globally, one in five people with HIV are unaware of their status, despite considerable scale up of HIV testing, treatment and prevention services. Many of those unreached by HIV testing services (HTS) are from key populations, partners of people with HIV and, in Eastern and southern ...Africa, men and young people. Improving the availability, accessibility, friendliness and quality of services is important to address these testing gaps.
At the same time, tools and interventions that increase the demand for HTS are needed to reach people who are uninformed about HTS options and advances in treatment and prevention, people who are not motivated to seek HTS and those who are hesitant to test because of fear of an HIV diagnosis or other reasons.
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                                                                This article deals with the burning issue of moral decision-making by major church assemblies, such  as  regional  and  general  synods.  Moral  decisions  by  church  assemblies  have  created  many conflicts in churches in the past and at times did an injustice to the prophetic testimony of church...es in society. The question arises as follows: To what extent should church assemblies be involved in moral decision-making? The central theoretical argument of this study is that although  the  notion  of  a  ‘biblical  ethic’  is  valid,  synods  and  council  of  churches  should  be  extremely cautious and even hesitant to formulate moral decisions because of differences in hermeneutical approaches and the principle that the church is primarily the ‘local congregation of believers’. The church is not in the first instance a national, general or international social structure that should pass conclusive resolutions and that testifies by way of moderators or elected church leaders. To unfurl this central theoretical argument, the researcher refers to the current  hermeneutical  discourses  and  proposes  certain  ideas  regarding  the  possible  role  of  the  church  with  respect  to  moral  decision-making.  In  view  of  the  information  provided,  a  point of view is advocated regarding the way in which churches could be involved in moral decision-making today.
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                                                                When we presented our analysis of Germany’s role in
global health in 2017 at an event in Berlin, Richard
Horton, the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, asked only
half-jokingly whether we could expect Germany to finally
shrug off the habitus of the “reluctant leader” and “step
up”. Back t...hen, the entire team of authors were hesitant
to use the term leadership as a broad label. We decided to
highlight areas where leadership could be observed, but
refrained from using it in the title of our previous study.
7 years later, after a devastating global pandemic, notable
political changes in Germany, and amid a substantially
changed global health landscape, we aim to analyse
Germany’s role in global health once more.
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                                                                Global and Regional View of Vaccine Acceptance and Related Behaviors.
This new interactive tool captures information on knowledge, attitudes and behaviors around vaccines, masking, testing and more from 12 million people in 115 countries. 
Insights and analyses on how to use the data were written ...by researchers and social and behavior change communication experts at CCP in collaboration with WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. This site is intended to be used by policy makers, health officials and practitioners at national and subnational levels to better understand the behavioral drivers behind vaccine uptake, masking and physical distancing among other behaviors that affect the spread of COVID-19.
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