"GiveWell has long recognized the potential for highly cost-effective vaccine programs. We started supporting #vaccination programs in 2015 and have made over $200 million in vaccination-related grants to date. For example, New Incentives, one of our Top Charities, aims to increase routine childhood vaccinations in northern Nigeria by providing small cash incentives to caregivers who bring their children into clinics for vaccinations..."
#Vaccination
"#RFKJr has done everything he can to discourage the use of influenza vaccine. In February 2025... RFK Jr. canceled the #CDC’s campaign to encourage #influenza #vaccination. Then, on January 7, 2026, he told a CBS News reporter that children might be “better off” if they didn’t get an influenza vaccine. His war against the influenza vaccine for children has been successful—289 children died last year from influenza another 60 have died in January 2026." https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/what-rfk-jrs-cdc-doesnt-want-you
Vaccination campaigns are a way to spread the benefits of knowledge fast & evenly. The current #polio #vaccination campaign in #Malawi shows the difficulties but also the success of such a campaign. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/23/influencers-misinformation-and-aid-cuts-the-fight-to-halt-polio-in-malawi
“You can give her any argument,” says Afghani, a senior manager with Unicef’s polio eradication programme. “It doesn’t matter. And then you have a local influencer walk in, and he says ‘vaccinate’, and she just hands you the child.”
#Polio #Malawi #Vaccination #PublicHealth
Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi | Global health | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/23/influencers-misinformation-and-aid-cuts-the-fight-to-halt-polio-in-malawi
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @bettycjung.bsky.social Unfortunately this is the real-time experiment on the U.S. population that #ACIP chair Kirk Milhoan said he wants to have by repealing #vaccination requirements. We're all guinea pigs and the cost will be counted in corpses.
Vaccination hesitancy is among the top 10 threats to global health, according to the World Health Organization. Tracking attitudes toward #vaccination is a key tool to tackle #vaccinationhesitancy.
We explored the link between anti-vaccination attitudes and endorsement of several policies and disease-spreading countermeasures, showing the importance of tracking people's attitudes towards vaccination.
Moreover, we adapted the Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale
to the Italian context (freely available in the appendix) and ran a comprehensive psychometric assessment of the scale.
Collabra: Psychology (University of California Press) gave us a platform for sharing our findings and materials (e.g., the scale's items) in full compliance with #openscience best practices.
We hope researchers and #policymakers can leverage our work to foster knowledge sharing and support vaccination efforts.
As state surgeon general of Louisiana, Abraham ordered #health officials to stop promoting mass #vaccination.
The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, stepped in to the temporary role of acting director of #CDC earlier this month after Jim O’Neill left the #HHS.
Anybody else have Walgreens calling to inquire about their vaccination status?
They wanted to know about flu and Covid shots. I hung up.
Here in #Canberra, a city of nearly 490,000, we’ve had ONE confirmed case of #measles. The #health department issued a press release and everything, in case patient zero inadvertently infected others.
When I was a kid, measles was a common childhood hazard. Everyone knew someone who caught it. Now, even a single case is unusual enough to warrant a press release.
#Immunisation works. We are KILLING it, folks.
#medicine #immunization #vaccination https://aus.social/@jhaue/116116726950300485
Pakistan's Ongoing Push to Eradicate Polio Amidst Persistent Challenges
Pakistan is vaccinating over 45 million children to stop polio. Learn about the challenges and dedicated workers in this important health effort.
#PakistanPolio, #ChildHealth, #Vaccination, #EndPolio, #PublicHealth
Pakistan is running big campaigns to give polio drops to over 45 million children. Many health workers are working hard, even in difficult places, to protect kids from this sickness.
#PakistanPolio, #ChildHealth, #Vaccination, #EndPolio, #PublicHealth
@jhaue
#vaccination
This comment is highly relevant: -
"It’s hard because nowadays lots of people haven’t seen any of these diseases,” says Menton, a community immunisation nurse at Gold Coast Health. In that way, she says, vaccines are a victim of their own success. “I talk to them about when I was a student nurse, and I was … on night duty having to care for a little child who had meningitis, and I would be fingers and toes crossed all night long that the child would still be alive the next morning.”
Only the older generations now in over 75's, actually suffered themselves from these past diseases or lived with those who did.
I had whooping cough, measles and chicken pox as a child. I can still remember how painful and scary they were. I had schoolfriends die of polio and others crippled for life by it.
As soon as vaccines were finally available all parents got their children vaccinated without question. My children and grandchildren have all been fully vaccinated.
It is heartbreaking to see these grim diseases surfacing again.
This criminal mindset started with the fools who wouldn't vaccinate against #COVID. Now the #US has become officially vaccine denying and they are causing a wider spread of these diseases around the world.
Measles is bad but polio is far, far worse and a cruel killer. I dread the time it will re-emerge again unless this anti-vax ignorance is stopped.
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UK Health Authorities Issue Warnings Over Resurgence of Historical Diseases
UK health officials report more cases of measles and tuberculosis. Learn the symptoms and why vaccination is important.
#Measles, #Tuberculosis, #UKHealth, #Vaccination, #PublicHealth
Health experts in the UK are seeing more cases of measles and tuberculosis. Measles is very catching and can cause a rash. Tuberculosis mainly affects the lungs. Getting your MMR vaccine helps stop measles. If you are worried about symptoms, please talk to your doctor.
#Measles, #Tuberculosis, #UKHealth, #Vaccination, #PublicHealth
Measles Cases Surge in UK, Threatening Public Health
Measles cases are increasing in the UK. The country has lost its status for being free of measles. Health officials urge people to get vaccinated.
Parents urged to check vaccination status of children after rise in measles cases
Measles is spreading again in the UK. This disease can make people very sick and was almost gone. Health experts say fewer people are getting the vaccine. They want everyone to get the MMR shot to stay safe.
Measles: A Highly Contagious Disease and its Protective Measures
Measles is a very catching sickness. Learn how it spreads and how the MMR shot stops it. Protect yourself and others.
#Measles, #Vaccination, #PublicHealth, #MMRShot, #StopMeasles
Measles is a sickness that spreads very easily. It can cause serious problems. The best way to stop it is by getting the MMR shot. This shot is safe and works very well.
#Measles, #Vaccination, #PublicHealth, #MMRShot, #StopMeasles
Today in Labor History February 20, 1905: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. There were lots of problems early on with the vaccine. For one, they reused needles, causing the transfer of syphilis from infected to uninfected people. They also had problems with bacterial contamination of the vaccine that made some people sick. On the other hand, because of the global mandatory vaccination program, the disease was eradicated in 1977, the only human disease to be completely wiped out. Keep in mind that as recently as the mid-1950s, over 2 million people were dying annually, worldwide, from the disease.
With respect to personal freedom, the Court ruled in Jacobson that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the state’s use of police power. Consequently, Jacobson has been invoked in other Supreme Court cases to justify police power. The ruling led to a mobilization of the anti-vaccination movement and the creation of the Anti-Vaccination League of America. The Jacobson ruling was later invoked to support the eugenicist forced sterilization of people with intellectual disabilities (Buck v Bell, 1927); the federal partial abortion ban (Gonzales v Carhart, 2007); drug testing of students (Veronica School District v Acton, 1995); and, most recently, COVID mitigation mandates, like face masks and stay-at-home orders.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #smallpox #vaccination #publichealth #vaccinemandates #liberty #freedom #SCOTUS #publichealth #antivax
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