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Author: Ranjani K.

"Vaccine awareness programs are necessary, and campaigns through the media and social network services can play significant roles..." The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rate in Japan has fallen to nearly zero since the suspension of governmental proactive recommendations in 2013, owing to the development of purported adverse events.

"The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for the Advancement of Women (BPfA)...called on governments and other actors to increase the participation and access of women to expression and decision making in and through the media and new technologies of communication and promote a balanced and non stereotyped portrayal of women in the media

"...some of us working in social and behavior change have perhaps overemphasized in some cases individual behavior change when in fact so much of individual behavior change is shaped by...social norms, gender norms, or the more structural factors and policies that really contribute to intersectional marginalization and...inequitable health outcomes

"...this trial could provide a novel insight into digital educational methods for promoting disease prevention through vaccination to the general public." Providing adequate information to parents who have children eligible for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is considered to be essential to overcoming vaccine hesitancy in Japan, where proac

"This review highlighted that not all potentially relevant confidence constructs have been identified and included in previous measures of vaccine confidence or comprehensively investigated in large, representative, population-based studies."

"To increase vaccination coverage, it is vital to know why uptake is low. Immunization programmes should collect data on what people are thinking and feeling, their motivation, and the social processes and practical issues that drive or hinder vaccination to develop evidence-informed strategies that increase uptake."

"The BeSD tools are field-tested, validated and user-friendly; they can provide standardized data on the modifiable reasons for low vaccine uptake, guide the planning of vaccine programmes at subnational, national, regional, and global levels, and inform continuous learning and improvement."

"African feminist knowledge-creation situates its work within the complexity and diversity of African contexts and is committed to intersectionality and the transformation of injustices in all African-based peoples lives." Feminist organisations across Africa play a critical role in building strategies to prevent violence against women (VAW).

"Identifying which HCPs are vaccine hesitant, quantifying the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy according to different socio-professional characteristics, understanding its nature and determinants, as well as its consequences on HCPs behaviors for themselves and their patients, are essential public health and research aims."