In Europe, it costs less than €3,500€ to vaccinate a person against up to 17 diseases over the course of their life.

Vaccines help make healthcare systems more resilient and sustainable.

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🛠 Tool of the Week: Practical Resources for Immunization Economics

When country-specific delivery cost data are missing, how can planning and financing decisions be grounded in evidence?

This week, we’re spotlighting the Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue (IDCC), the most comprehensive dataset on the cost of delivering vaccines in low- and middle-income countries, developed by Health Systems Insight.

Drawing on 119 studies, the IDCC provides standardized delivery cost data that can be used to inform a wide range of economic analyses, planning exercises, and financing strategies.

The IDCC includes:
📊 1,156 standardized delivery cost estimates (2022 USD)
💵 Cost per dose, per target person, and per fully vaccinated person
🌍 Filters by country, delivery strategy, antigen, and target population
📄 Companion brief and methods guide to support interpretation

Explore the Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue here:
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“When I was young in the 70’s, there were fewer vaccines, and we are all fine.”

➡️ This is an increasingly common argument made for vaccinating children less -as if your child could have too much protection from disease.

➡️ Their predecessors weren’t *all* fine -only the ones who survived meningitis are around to say it wasn’t a big deal.

But there is yet another layer of weaponized ignorance at play:

🚩 Assumption that the past was better than the present.

I could quote statistics on historic life expectancy and disease morbidity, but that’s BORING. Let’s be practical:

If the person offering this argument develops leukemia, would they:

A) take a pill at home and experience a >80% chance at survival (as we do in the here and now), or

B) demand non-specific IV chemo that had (at best) <30% survival -the gold standard prior to one of several drug discoveries starting in 1996?

💔 Heart attack? No stents for you. That’s 1986 tech.
⚡️ V-fib? Most ambulances didn’t have defibrillators till the 1980’s.
😷 Aortic aneurysm? Appendicitis? Gallstones? Open repair-only prior to the 80’s. Enjoy that gigantic incision.

No sane adult would sign up for old-fashioned medicine, yet many insist that kids should suffer preventable diseases as their childhood peers did, out of warped nostalgia. New vaccines solve problems that couldn’t be solved before their invention. | 27 comments on LinkedIn

Last week, I spent three intensive days at Yale University focused on science communication and trust-building.

Day 1: I met in person with The Evidence Collective, a science communication nonprofit I've been working with for the past year. After months of Zoom calls, finally being in the same room with this incredible group of public health professionals and communicators was energizing.

Day 2: I attended Yale School of Public Health's conference on "Rebuilding Trust in Public Health." The panels reinforced something I've been arguing for a while: trust is relational, and you can't communication-strategy your way out of a structural trust problem. Communities that distrust public health often have good reasons—historical harm, broken promises, extractive research practices. No amount of clever messaging or infographics will fix that.

Day 3: I helped organize "Faith, Facts, and Trust"—a gathering between science communicators and Christian leaders. We brought together scientists, pastors, public health researchers, and faith-based organizers to discuss how we can break out of our echo chambers and reach communities we couldn't reach alone.

My key takeaways:
Scientists need to leave our bubbles: both physically and intellectually. Meaningful engagement means going where people actually are: community spaces, churches, social media feeds.
Trust requires sustained presence and reciprocal partnerships, not just better messaging. One-off events don't build trust.
We need more boundary-crossing collaborations. Some of the most important science communication work will happen at the boundaries between worlds that don't usually overlap.

The work is slow, uncomfortable, and resource-intensive. But after this week, I'm convinced we have the people and partnerships to do it, if we're willing to show up, stay present, and do the slow work of rebuilding trust one community at a time.

Full reflections here:
https://lnkd.in/ekPeaqsK

It would appear that anti-vax lunacy from the US has spread across the pond to th

The spread of fake news about healthcare can result in a global health crisis, as it is easy to mislead the public. Detection of fake Arabic news in the healthcare sector is crucial for identifying disinformation, especially in regions where Arabic is the predominant language. Various deep learning and machine learning methods have been proposed to categorize false Arabic news related to healthcare. However, the linguistic diversity of Arabic complicates the development of effective models. Furthermore, the lack of domain-specific high-quality data makes it difficult to build accurate and reliable models. Data augmentation (DA) techniques have shown great promise in addressing these challenges. This study presents a novel technique for expanding Arabic healthcare data by conducting a multi-metric analysis to comprehensively evaluate the quality of the augmented data based on several key aspects, including label preservation, novelty, diversity, and semantic similarity. In the initial phase of our research, we investigated the impact of various data augmentation techniques on widely used classification algorithms. Additionally, similarity thresholds are systematically examined to determine their effect on the classification task. Cosine and Jaccard distances are employed to evaluate the generated sentences in terms of semantics, diversity, novelty, and label preservation. Finally, we propose a novel ensemble augmentation approach that combines multiple DA techniques to generate more varied data. Based on the overall experimental results, the proposed methodology significantly improves the classification of Arabic fake news using AraBERT, with an accuracy increase of 12.1%. In comparison, Random Forest achieved an improvement of 14.7%.

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Après Epstein ce pourrait être un scandale d’ici quelques années
Nous a t’on menti et pourquoi Mme l’a Présidente Ursula se refuse à plus de transparence

Il existe plusieurs études et sources officielles qui examinent le lien potentiel entre les vaccins à ARN messager contre la COVID-19 et le risque de cancer. Voici quelques-unes d'elles :

- *Étude italienne* : Une étude italienne publiée dans la revue EXCLI Journal a suivi une cohorte de près de 300 000 résidents de la province de Pescara entre juin 2021 et décembre 2023. Les résultats suggèrent une association entre la vaccination et une augmentation du risque de cancer, notamment pour les cancers du sein, de la vessie et colorectaux.
- *Revue de la littérature* : Une revue de la littérature publiée dans la revue Frontiers in Immunology a identifié 17 mécanismes potentiels par lesquels les vaccins à ARN messager pourraient induire le cancer, notamment l'instabilité du génome, l'inflammation chronique et la destruction du microbiote.
- *Études sur les cellules immunitaires* : Des études ont montré que les vaccins à ARN messager peuvent altérer la fonction des cellules immunitaires, notamment les lymphocytes T et les macrophages, ce qui pourrait contribuer à l'échappement immunitaire des cellules cancéreuses. ¹ ²

Il est important de noter que ces études sont encore préliminaires et que des recherches supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour confirmer ces résultats. Les autorités sanitaires, telles que l'Agence européenne des médicaments, continuent de surveiller étroitement les effets indésirables des vaccins et n'ont pas observé de signal cancérogène significatif.

The AAP’s 2026 immunization schedule is out. What comes next is harder: helping families navigate confusion and conflicting guidance with trust and clarity.

One in every nine children born in Nigeria die before their firth birthday on poor nutrition and inefficient vaccine programs according to Nigeria Demographic Health Survey (NDHS,2024) reports.

Although the numbers declined by 45% from 201 fatalities per 1000 live births in 2003 to 110 fatalities per 1000 live births, this statistics reveals a gap in maternal and child care.
Some states have higher rates than others.

Find details in the link below 👇👇

https://lnkd.in/dXEx47tZ

Nearly half of the CDC’s disease surveillance databases have gone dark. States, EHR vendors, and academic medical centers must team up to fill the gap.

HHS spokespeople can deny it until they are blue in the face, but the fact is Sec. Kennedy has destabilized the vaccine ecosystem so much that investors are turning away. And perhaps that is his goal.

What does this mean for the American public? Jobs lost. Lives not saved. And all for what?

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Some people claim “measles are good for you”? That’s insane.

Addressing the Impact of Medical Misinformation (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Revisiting Disinformation: Critical Media Literacy Approaches):

https://lnkd.in/dy-RwAxU

Glimpse: The main goals of efforts to counteract health misinformation are prevention (using media literacy and machine learning detection) and correction (using direct debunking or indirect strategies like emotional appeals and balanced messaging). Community influence, public trust, source reliability, and message clarity all affect effectiveness. Health organizations that provide evidence-based resources, public campaigns, and partnerships with digital platforms—such as the CDC, WHO, and national medical associations—play a crucial role. Misinformation still exists despite these efforts, especially with opioids, tobacco, and vaccines, and there is still little interaction across a variety of platforms and languages. Issues including dwindling institutional trust, the complexity of healthcare, and regulatory limitations highlight the necessity of systemic change. To increase health literacy, decrease susceptibility to false information, and improve access to trustworthy information, government-led programs, thorough health education, and culturally sensitive communication are crucial.

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People form beliefs not only as individual agents, but as members of social
groups.

A new paper finds that children (4-6 years old) who belonged to a group were more convinced by evidence that supported their ingroup’s belief (and were less convinced by evidence that opposed their ingroup): https://lnkd.in/eDgm4a-M

This is exciting evidence that the Identity-based Model of Belief extends to young kid and novel groups! All kinds of identities shape our beliefs about the world. https://lnkd.in/eTtc3dxm

🔷 Le livre blanc "Collectif Femmes de Santé et al., Mésinformation en santé : Défi collectif et enjeu majeur pour la santé des femmes, 2025." analyse l'impact de l'infodémie et de la mésinformation sur la santé des femmes.

🔹L'objectif de cet état des lieux étant de proposer des recommandations concrètes et des stratégies de sensibilisation pour protéger les parcours de soins.

🔹La thématique vaccination y est abordée via différents axes dont les éléments suivants mis en exergue :

✅ Une revue systématique de la littérature réalisée par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé en 2022 a établi que 51 % des publications sur les réseaux sociaux concernant les vaccins contenaient de la mésinformation.

✅ En 2020, une étude a analysé les dimensions de la mésinformation sur Instagram concernant le vaccin contre le HPV, soulignant la circulation de 72% de contenus trompeurs sur cette plateforme.

✅ Lors de la pandémie de COVID-19, la diffusion d'informations fausses ou trompeuses a directement provoqué des refus de vaccination, entravant ainsi la réponse de santé publique.

✅ Le livre blanc identifie la vaccination contre le HPV comme l'un des sujets faisant l'objet de fausses informations récurrentes, nécessitant une anticipation de la part des acteurs de santé.

📌 On vous conseille un excellent groupe scientifique sur Méta animé majoritairement par des professionnels de santé et des scientifiques, Vaccins France Informations & Discussions pour poser toutes vos questions inhérentes à la vaccination : https://lnkd.in/eqkBMF7U

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VigiAccess, c'est la base de
données de l'OMS avec les signalements volontaires qui indique presque 6 millions d'effets indésirables (vaccin covid).
Les vaccins pour la grippe, les
vaccins pour le tétanos etc… cetera, c'est +-200/300 milles, depuis 50 ans.
Il y a quand même une explosion des effets indésirables.

L’intégrale de cette vidéo :
Rencontre avec Chloé Frammery
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Nous ne bénéficions d'aucun subsides.
Merci pour votre soutien !  C'est essentiel pour nous !
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Il y a deux drames dans l’affaire Epstein.
Le premier est évident. Effroyable. Inqualifiable. Des mineurs abusés. Des vies brisées. Et derrière ces crimes, des hommes puissants, protégés par leur statut, leur fortune, leurs réseaux. C’est une faillite morale absolue.

Mais il y a un second drame, plus insidieux.

Pendant des années, lorsque certains évoquaient des noms connus, des responsables politiques, des chefs d’entreprise, des figures publiques, beaucoup d’entre nous – moi le premier – avons balayé ces accusations d’un revers de la main.
“Impossible.”
“Ce sont des fantasmes.”
“Un complot pour salir des élites.”

Et pourtant.

J’ai eu tort.
Nous avons été des milliers. Peut-être des millions.
Non pas d’avoir voulu défendre l’État de droit, mais d’avoir confondu prudence et déni.

Et c’est là que commence le second drame : la fracture de la confiance.

Car lorsque des faits avérés confirment que des puissants ont menti, manipulé, été protégés, le doute ne s’arrête pas à cette affaire. Il s’étend. Il contamine.

Si cela était vrai… alors quoi d’autre ?
La vaccination ? L’alunissage ?
La mort de telle ou telle personnalité ?

Le soupçon devient systémique.
La défiance devient réflexe.
La parole publique se délégitime.

Et dans cet espace fissuré, les théories les plus extravagantes trouvent un terrain fertile. Les conspirationnistes prospèrent non pas parce qu’ils ont raison, mais parce que la crédibilité des institutions s’est érodée.

Voilà le poison durable de cette affaire.

Au-delà des crimes – qui exigent justice – c’est la confiance collective qui est atteinte.
Et une société sans confiance devient une société vulnérable. | 281 comments on LinkedIn