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In most cases, local-level leaders have welcomed immunization workers, seeing vaccination programs as a form of patronage that reinforces their authority.
By contrast, in Somalia, the terrorist group al-Shabaab has historically forbidden polio workers from operating in areas under their control, viewing vaccination campaigns as part of a foreign campaign to impose a centralized government.
In response, an ad hoc coalition, including moderate opposition groups, Turkish authorities, and local NGOs carried out a series of vaccination campaigns and contained the outbreak.
But, thanks to intensive vaccination campaigns, there were only 58 cases of polio in the entire country last year – down 70% from 2011.
In 1994, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto launched the first national vaccination drive by inoculating her baby daughter, Aseefa.
Moreover, Haiti’s Ministry of Health and the Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization are beginning the second phase of a UN-financed vaccination initiative that is targeting 600,000 people in areas where cholera persists; 200,000 people are set to be vaccinated in the next couple of months, with another 300,000 to follow by the end of this year.
Similarly, deworming treatments and vaccination are inexpensive, effective, and have a high return on investment.
Recent social media attacks on a measles-rubella vaccination campaign even surfaced in India, fueling a mix of conspiracy theories, safety concerns, and questions of motivation – and demonstrating the extent to which lives can be imperiled when facts are ignored.
For example, Germany fares better than other European countries in its resistance to populism, not only because its economy is strong and its history constitutes a form of vaccination.
The British physician Andrew Wakefield’s vaccine theory became wildly popular among parents, many of whom began to withhold vaccination (thus subjecting their own and other children to the risk of entirely preventable, and sometimes serious, illnesses).
Vaccination seemed a plausible cause because of the fortuitous correlation between getting shots and the onset of symptoms.
Last year, Freeda was injured and a family member was killed in an attack during a vaccination drive.
The comparative docility of infectious diseases like smallpox has contributed to a degree of complacency about the magnitude of the risks of refusing vaccination.
The first vaccination campaign reached virtually everyone in the country aged 1-29.
The task before African leaders is to ensure a smooth and full transition from mass vaccination campaigns to routine immunization.
Though the evidence is clear that vaccination does not cause the harms that its opponents stubbornly claim it does, any effort by a government to restrict speech is worrying.
That evidence conclusively disproves the claims of anti-vaccination advocates that childhood vaccination causes autism and other long-term neurodevelopmental damage.
As a result, vaccination rates are declining in some communities, especially those with high concentrations of anti-government libertarians or back-to-nature environmentalists.
But vaccination is only one example of how advocates sometimes put the public at risk by rejecting scientific evidence.
But when parents buy into scares linking childhood vaccines to autism, when media pundits scoff at public-health measures to prevent swine flu from spreading, or when a UK researcher claims that “the scourge of aging is worse than smallpox,” vaccination, epidemic prevention, and screening fall by the wayside.
And, indeed, vaccination forms the core of Angola’s National Response Plan, initiated early this year with the goal of administering the yellow fever vaccine to more than 6.4 million people in Luanda Province.
The mass vaccination effort has stemmed the spread of yellow fever.
But to end the outbreak, vaccination has to continue not only in Luanda, where an additional 1.5 million are at risk of infection, but also encompass other affected provinces.
To help limit yellow fever’s spread, international health regulations require that all travelers to the 34 countries where yellow fever is endemic present a vaccination certificate.
Reports of yellow fever infection in non-immunized travelers returning from a country where vaccination against the disease is mandatory highlights the need to reinforce the implementation of vaccination requirements.
Vaccination, however, doesn't solve the export problem, because it produces false positives on blood tests of animals suspected of having the disease, so the importing countries don't know if they have found an animal with the disease, or an animal that has been vaccinated against it.
While the focus on holding vaccination sessions in schools has proved successful, it is inadequate for reaching girls in countries with low school-attendance rates, especially in urban areas.
We do not know precisely how many children have died from preventable diseases as a result of the breakdown in vaccination programs, or how many mothers and infants lost their lives for lack of medical equipment and personnel.
Indeed, before vaccination made measles a rarity, the disease was widely feared, killing thousands of children every year.
The tragic irony of vaccination in America is that it has become a victim of its own success.
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