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Health and Food Safety HOW IS THE EU PROMOTING VACCINATION • STEPPING UP ACTION TO INCREASE VACCINE CONFIDENCE BOOSTING VACCINE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND INNOVATION THE GLOBAL PICTURE BELIEVE VACCINES TO BE SAFE WORLDWIDE VACCINES PREVENT UP TO COULD BE PREVENTED IF GLOBAL VACCINATION COVERAGE IMPROVED HAVE NOT RECEIVED BASIC VACCINES 3 million DEATHS EACH YEAR 1.5 million DEATHS 20 million CHILDREN 8/10 PEOPLE PEOPLE WITH MORE TRUST IN SCIENTISTS, DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE MORE LIKELY TO SAY VACCINES ARE SAFE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN EUROPE? WHAT DO EUROPEANS THINK? BELIEVE vaccines can PRODUCE SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS 48% BELIEVE vaccines can cause the DISEASES AGAINST which they PROTECT 38% BELIEVE vaccines are PREVENTING INFECTIOUS DISEASE 85% European Commission: ec.europa.eu/health/vaccination/overview_en @EU_Health #VaccinationSummit19 #VaccinesWork Wellcome Report Monitor 2018, Eurobarometer, World Health Organization While 3/4 OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION TRUST DOCTORS and NURSES more than anyone else for health advice, more people are going ONLINE FOR INFORMATION The World Health Organization listed VACCINE HESITANCY as one of the TOP 10 PUBLIC HEALTH THREATS FOR 2019 VACCINATION: AN ISSUE FOR EUROPE & THE WORLD From July 2018 to June 2019, 11 EU/EEA Member States reported 483 CASES OF RUBELLA, the highest numbers came from Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain and Romania. 483 CASES RUBELLA 90 000 MEASLES CASES reported in the European Region of the WHO in the first half of 2019. This is already more than the total for 2018 - 84 462 90 000 MEASLES CASES ACTIVE ROLE IN THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO ASSURE HEALTH, SECURITY & PROSPERITY THROUGH IMMUNISATION

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Health andFood Safety

HOW IS THE EU PROMOTING VACCINATION• STEPPING UP ACTION TO INCREASE VACCINE CONFIDENCE• •

BOOSTING VACCINE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND INNOVATION

THE GLOBAL PICTURE

BELIEVE VACCINES TO BE SAFE WORLDWIDE

VACCINES PREVENT UP TO

COULD BE PREVENTED IF GLOBAL

VACCINATION COVERAGE IMPROVED

HAVE NOT RECEIVED BASIC VACCINES

3 millionDEATHS

EACH YEAR

1.5 millionDEATHS20 million

CHILDREN

8/10PEOPLE

PEOPLE WITH MORE TRUST IN SCIENTISTS, DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE MORE LIKELY TO SAY

VACCINES ARE SAFE

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN EUROPE?

WHAT DO EUROPEANS THINK?

BELIEVE vaccines can PRODUCE SERIOUS

SIDE EFFECTS

48% BELIEVE vaccines can cause the DISEASES AGAINST which they PROTECT

38% BELIEVE vaccines are PREVENTING

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

85%

European Commission: ec.europa.eu/health/vaccination/overview_en @EU_Health #VaccinationSummit19 #VaccinesWork

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While 3/4 OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION TRUST DOCTORS and NURSES more than anyone else for health advice, more people are going ONLINE FOR INFORMATION

The World Health Organization listed VACCINE HESITANCY as one of the TOP 10 PUBLIC HEALTH THREATS FOR 2019

VACCINATION: AN ISSUE FOR EUROPE & THE WORLD

From July 2018 to June 2019, 11 EU/EEA Member States reported 483 CASES OF RUBELLA, the highest numbers came from Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain and Romania.

483CASESRUBELLA

90 000 MEASLES CASES reported in the European Region of the WHO in the first half of 2019. This is already more than the total for 2018 - 84 462

90 000 MEASLES

CASES

ACTIVE ROLE IN THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO ASSURE HEALTH, SECURITY & PROSPERITY THROUGH IMMUNISATION