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Vaccine hesitancy – Threat to Global Health
September 19 , 2019
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- The World Health Organization (WHO) has included ‘vaccine hesitancy’ as one of the 10 threats to global health for the year 2019.
- Vaccine hesitancy means the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines.
- Vaccine hesitancy threatens to reverse progress made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Example: Measles has seen a 30% increase in cases globally in 2018.
- Ten threats to global health in 2019 according to WHO are:
- Air pollution and climate change
- Noncommunicable diseases
- Global influenza pandemic
- Fragile and vulnerable settings
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Ebola and other high-threat pathogens
- Weak primary health care
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Dengue
- HIV
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