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Vaccines are better perceived by the French: it is the result of an Ipsos survey on behalf of the federation of drug manufacturers (Leem) published Wednesday, July 4th. According to this study, 83% of those surveyed said they were "in favor" or "somewhat favorable" to vaccination for themselves and their loved ones. According to Leem, this improvement is attributable to the government's voluntarist policy. As for the 17% of opinions against vaccination (of which 5% "not at all" favorable), respondents fear the side effects of vaccines. They also mention the lack of information, the dangers related to their composition or even concerns about the presence of any harmful substances.
In October 2016, a previous Leem study showed that only 69% of those questioned trusted to vaccines, down two points over one year and one low since 2012. "There is a mbadive adherence" to the principle of vaccination, welcomed at a press point the CEO of Leem, Philippe Lamoureux . Since 1 January 2018, compulsory vaccination of children has increased from three to eleven vaccines. This reform, carried by the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, had been surrounded by a sometimes heated debate between the medical community and anti-vaccines, minority but very active, including social networks.
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Prevention: an indispensable tool
"The vaccination obligation is there to try to restore confidence to the population. But we would much rather that this measure is transient and that everyone adheres to a prevention policy, "said at the press briefing of Leem Odile Launay, professor of infectious diseases at Paris-Descartes University. "The medical community must make its self-criticism: prevention has never been considered as a central point of medical training in France," added Brigitte Autran, Coordinator of the Corevac Vaccinology Research Consortium, led by the National Alliance for the sciences of life (Aviesan).
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