Apr 20, 2023 5:59 am
In those 3 years, “more than a decade of progress in routine childhood vaccination has been jeopardized” due to constraints in healthcare systems or pandemic-related lockdowns.
Specifically, Unicef found a drop in confidence in vaccines in 52 of the 55 countries surveyed: the only exceptions are China, India and Mexico, where confidence in vaccinating children has remained stable or increased since the pandemic began. Conversely, awareness of childhood immunizations has fallen by more than a third in South Korea, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Ghana and Senegal.
Unicef researchers attribute the loss of confidence to several factors, including uncertainty about institutional responses to the pandemic, access to misleading information and a general loss of confidence in experts, politicians and the pharmaceutical sector, which have contributed to the rise in feelings of hesitance to vaccinate . However, the report acknowledges that trust in childhood immunizations remains generally high: in almost half of the 55 countries involved in the study, over 80% of respondents recognize the importance of vaccinating children.
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