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Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of scientists.

"The 45 included studies about misinformation on social media platforms about COVID-19 vaccines suggest that there should be great concern about the volume of misinformation being spread, and the association between COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and vaccine hesitancy." Social media plays a crucial role in disseminating both correct information an

"The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the urgency to design behavioral interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake. At the same time, it has highlighted the absence of behavior change models in designing immunization interventions."

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"Long before the COVID-19 health crisis, sub-Saharan Africa has and still endures the brunt of many global health crises such as the deadly Ebola virus, HIV/AIDS, cholera and malaria, which have claimed millions of lives."

"The spread of vaccination misinformation can lead to decreased confidence in vaccines and ultimately thereby to reduced vaccine acceptance and uptake." Results from a 2019 survey show that almost half of people in the European Union think vaccines can often produce severe side effects, and 38% believe that vaccines cause disease.

"Local news media are defined by how they serve their community. Its local journalism if it brings a geographically constrained audience together with the news that the audience needs, news that empowers people to tell their own stories to one another and to the world at large."

The Organisation  Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.  We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

THURSDAY, Aug. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) – A "social contagion" theory that suggests teens, and girls in particular, are being influenced by their peers to become transgender is baseless, a