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"As public health authorities, health communicators and the media hasten to work with technology firms to fight vaccine mis/disinformation..., it is urgent for research to classify the characteristics of anti‐vaccine messages into very specific categories as well as investigate how regularly users of social media are exposed to each category." Decl

"We are not refusing the vaccines.

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"Immunization staff from all levels of the health system became citizen scientists, active knowledge-makers drawing on their personal experience of a situation in which they successfully overcame the barriers to vaccine acceptance in the community."

"...religious organizations have a very close relationship with the community and they hold the communitys trust and that means that they are well positioned...to help ...close the gap between science and faith..." A decline in vaccination coverage and increase of unvaccinated children in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, which had alrea

"In spite of numerous appeals, mainly from anthropologists, to accord greater importance to culture in global health, it continues to receive scant attention by major organisations, donors and academics working in this field." This commentary argues that global research and funding institutions should support more culturally grounded research and p

The goal of this Special Issue on “Understanding and Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy” is to examine the current state of knowledge concerning the causes, influences, and solutions to the growing problem of vaccine hesitancy in modern society.

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"Better understanding the drivers of subnational inequalities - such as subnational differences in gender inequality - can enable targeted and tailored approaches to improve not only gender equality, but also reach these missed communities to improve immunization coverage and equity."

Convening the communication and media (for) development, social and behavioural change community through a social networking and shared knowledge strategy. Focus on health, governance, HIV/AIDS, children, media development, conflict management, environment, rights, disasters, gender and other major Development issues.