India’s proposed nationwide free HPV vaccination drive for girls aged 9 to 15 is significant, as its success could dramatically accelerate cervical cancer elimination targets globally
Washington: A new research has found that reluctance or refusal to get jabbed against Covid-19 infection (vaccine hesitancy), may be linked to traumatic events in childhood, such as neglect, domestic violence or substance misuse in the family home. The study has been published in the ‘BMJ Open Journal’. Vaccine hesitancy was 3 times higher among […]
Hyderabad: The State government’s efforts to encourage people to get vaccinated and the reporting of new Covid variant Omicron, appears to have yielded results with unvaccinated individuals turning up in sizeable numbers to get Covid jabs, Director of Public Health (DPH), Dr G Srinivasa Rao here on Sunday, said. “After two to three weeks, for […]
The decision-making process gets dominated by personal risk concerns. The best way to counter those concerns, therefore, is to highlight the opposite: personal benefits
Vaccine hesitant people may have anxiety over safety concerns, or they might belong to a community that historically has mistrusted the medical establishment, according to the study.
