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Vaccine confidence plummets in the Philippines following dengue vaccine scare: why it matters to pandemic preparedness

Heidi J LarsonDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK;Department of Health Metrics & Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Kenneth Hartigan-GoStephen Zuellig School of Development Management, Asian Institute of Management, Makati City, The Philippines
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Alexandre de FigueiredoDepartment of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK;Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Pages 625-627 | Received 13 Aug 2018, Accepted 31 Aug 2018, Published online: 12 Oct 2018

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Figure 1. Confidence in vaccines has declined substantially in the Philippines between 2015 and 2018.

Vaccine confidence in the Philippines has declined across all four measures of confidence measured by the Vaccine Confidence ProjectTM: the percentage of respondents agreeing that vaccines are important for children to have has decreased from 99.5% in 2015 to 76.2% in 2018. Similar drops are observed for vaccine safety (97.3% to 65.2%), effectiveness (97.0% to 67.9%), and compatibility with religious beliefs (83.8% to 67.9%).

Figure 1. Confidence in vaccines has declined substantially in the Philippines between 2015 and 2018.Vaccine confidence in the Philippines has declined across all four measures of confidence measured by the Vaccine Confidence ProjectTM: the percentage of respondents agreeing that vaccines are important for children to have has decreased from 99.5% in 2015 to 76.2% in 2018. Similar drops are observed for vaccine safety (97.3% to 65.2%), effectiveness (97.0% to 67.9%), and compatibility with religious beliefs (83.8% to 67.9%).

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