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Poland last EU country to make HPV vaccine free of charge
From now on, all the bloc's countries will have free HPV vaccination included in their national vaccination schedules.
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„Vaccines and medicines work. We cannot reject several hundreds years of experience” [INTERVIEW]
"I think that life has verified the anti-vaccination attitude. Sometimes the verification was brutal or even fatal" - emphasizes prof. Andrzej Horban, national consultant in the field of infectious diseases.
UNICEF delivers vaccines to immunise Ukrainians at home and abroad
UNICEF sends vaccines to Ukraine as part of humanitarian aid while also supporting Poland in vaccinating Ukrainian refugees.
Engaging stars or explaining doubts: Different approaches to vaccine promotion
Different countries take different approaches to advertising vaccination, with Moldova now trying the path that did not proved successful in Poland.
Monkeypox: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?
Monkeypox is spreading over more and more countries around the world. Also Poland recorded its first infections.
Nearly all Palestinians believe children should be vaccinated. The French among the most sceptical [STUDY]
Nine in ten people in the world believe children should receive jabs against the most common infectious diseases, according to the study by The Wellcome Trust.
Prof. Krzysztof Pyrć: We need reliable and honest communication on pandemic issues [INTERVIEW]
The COVID-19 pandemic, as we know it, has become a secondary concern. However, the virus is here to stay, says professor Krzysztof Pyrć, a virologist from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Bartosz Sieniawski, EURACTIV.pl: While COVID-19 has been overshadowed by the …
Ukrainian refugees in Poland entitled to preventive vaccinations
Yet many do not wish to exercise this right.
Protection from COVID-19 without a jab? Trial results of inhaled vaccine show promise
Instead of being poked with a needle, inhaling a little bit of aerosol – that’s how getting vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could soon look like.
Vaccine hesitancy – not as new phenomenon as one might expect
Vaccine hesitancy draws back to long before the current anti-vaxxers movements.
„New” vs. „old” disease: COVID-19 slowed progress on treating tuberculosis in Africa
"The COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption to health services has seen an increase in tuberculosis deaths in Africa, the first such rise in more than a decade," alarms WHO Africa.
Polio: A forgotten disease returns. Is a new pandemic a real threat?
Poliomyelitis is developing new cases in Asia, Africa and even Europe. How the once practically eradicated disease become a danger again?
Commissioner Stella Kyriakides: Vaccination is the most effective way to end the pandemic
What is the EU doing to build a sustainable and resilient health professional workforce? What is next for the EU on the health agenda?
Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on COVID-19 and vaccination: We need to trust science! [PODCAST]
Vaccination is the most effective way to end the pandemic and get back to a normal life, says Stella Kyriakides, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety.
Stella Kyriakides: Strong European Health Union is the future of EU health policy [INTERVIEW]
"A healthy and resilient healthcare workforce is the fundamental basis of a sustainable healthcare system. And a sustainable healthcare system is the basis not only for our well-being but also for our economies and our societies" - says Stella Kyriakides, …
COVID-19 and seasonal flu: Will the pandemic prompt more people to get jabbed against influenza?
The ECDC has recently warned that Europe's elderly could be facing a difficult flu season, which in combination with the next pandemic wave may lead to severe health consequences.
This vaccine is a historic breakthrough. An injection preventing malaria is now administered to children in Africa
Malaria kills over 260,000 children under the age of 5 every year.
Vaccine inequality may cost the world over 2 trillion dollars
The costs of vaccine inequality are massive. Will the world's richest nations act to alleviate the problem plaguing low-income countries?
Combatting vaccination mistrust requires hearing from different voices [INTERVIEW]
We are not homogeneous in our views, and the pandemic has also made people express their health choices in visible ways, says Pia Vuolanto, project coordinator of VAX-TRUST project.
Millions of children due to COVID-19 pandemic not vaccinated against other dangerous diseases
At least 23 million children worldwide did not receive the required routine vaccinations.
Building vaccine confidence [INTERVIEW]
Overall, the key issue in vaccine hesitancy is understanding that it is not a new phenomenon, says Pia Vuolanto, Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere University Institute for Advanced Social Research and the project coordinator of the research project VAX-TRUST.
How to fight with vaccine hesitancy? [INTERVIEW]
"We can’t just talk about how great are vaccines. We have to lead by example", says Chiara Močnik Pegan from the European Medical Students’ Association.
How to fight with vaccine hesitancy? [INTERVIEW]
The biggest issue is that people are scared because they do not have enough knowledge to understand how vaccines work, says Chiara Močnik Pegan from European Medical Students' Association.
COVID-19 Disinformation and its Impact on the Democracy
Are we in the pandemic of disinformation? How can we reduce vaccine anxiety and make societies less vulnerable to conspiracy theories?