Young against anti-vaccines

EMeasles is back. The reported cases of the disease – which had virtually disappeared for decades – have increased in Europe and the United States, making 110,000 deaths worldwide in 2017. The deliberately unvaccinated children are the main victims of the epidemic and his cause. Primary anti-vaccination activism has intensified since 1998, when Andrew Wakefield and his coauthors published a landmark article in The Lancet, a leading medical publication, in which they claimed to have found a link between the measles vaccine, mumps and rubella (SPR) and autism. A subsequent due diligence revealed that the article was completely false. Unfortunately, by the time The Lancet was retracted in 2010, it had given a new impetus to the anti – vaccine movement, generating growing mistrust of the MMR vaccine and pushing fewer people to the vaccine. ;accept. The reaction is not limited to this vaccine. Web sites, blogs and social networks have begun to circulate unfounded accusations about the allegedly harmful effects of other vaccines. To achieve group immunity, a sufficiently large proportion of the population must have been vaccinated – more than 90% in the case of the measles virus – to interrupt the chain of transmission. Thus, vaccination is more than individual well-being: it is an action of social solidarity. This is why a growing number of governments are looking for ways to encourage parents to vaccinate their children. With thousands of unvaccinated children, even after cutting state benefits for their parents, it seems clear that mandatory vaccination will not be enough to restore and maintain long-term immunization coverage. The key lies in education, especially among young people. Education programs on the benefits of immunization tend to target parents and health professionals, but young people can play a key role in reversing the rejection of vaccines. Conversations about taking the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, the most common badually transmitted disease, can be an important opportunity. It is recommended to administer HPV vaccines to preadolescents and adolescent girls, but the overall rate of vaccination against this virus is insufficient to achieve group immunity because of the resistance of some parents. Adolescence is the period in a person's life where one's beliefs and attitudes towards health problems are formed. They only need to receive accurate information as part of educational programs that go beyond the clbadroom and take advantage of comics, learning tools with games, social networks and other digital technologies. To be credible and effective, these initiatives must be independent of pressure groups and vaccine manufacturers. Encouraging young people to make informed decisions and talking to their parents about HPV vaccine could lead to the acceptance of other life-saving vaccines. The effectiveness of immunization programs being a key factor in health, such a change would be a major improvement for public health. In the fight for climate action or, in the US. In the control of arms, youth movements are already changing mentality and shaping political agendas. It is time to mobilize young people to overcome vaccine resistance and end diseases such as measles.