{"id":11186,"date":"2019-04-25T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2019-04-25T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:43:49","slug":"efn-invited-to-a-who-high-level-event-on-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=11186","title":{"rendered":"EFN Invited to a WHO High-Level Event on Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vaccination is high on the international agenda. New outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles, are occurring across Europe. Despite the demonstrated benefits of many kinds of vaccination, it remains a controversial issue largely due to misinformation, restricted access, health illiteracy and cost. The consequences of low uptakes of certain kinds of vaccination can be damaging to the health and economic welfare of vulnerable citizens across Europe, and by extension to their families and wider communities. Nurses are the frontline staff largely engaged for delivering safe and effective vaccination programmes to communities across Europe, yet rarely get formal recognition for this life-saving endeavour. The EFN report on Vaccination<\/a>, bringing the evidence of frontline initiatives together, should inspire policymakers and politician to develop in co-design fit-for-purpose policies.<\/p>\n

To reflect on this, and on occasion of the European Immunization week (24-30 April), the European Region of the World Health Organisation has organised a high-level event to which the EFN has been invited. Some of the speakers of the event are Mr Tom Auwers (Federal Ministry of Public Health, Belgium), Mr Robb Butler (UNICEF), Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat (European Public Health Association), Prof Helen Bedford (UCL), Prof Pierre Van Damme (Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute), and Dr Maggie De Block (Federal Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health and of Asylum and Migration, Belgium).<\/p>\n

The EFN is also in line with the objectives of the Council of the EU Recommendations<\/a><\/u> on strengthened cooperation<\/a> against vaccine-preventable diseases, adopted on 7 December 2018, this new Coalition is aiming \u201cto bring together European associations of healthcare workers as well as relevant students\u00b4 associations in the field, to commit to delivering accurate information to the public, combating myths and exchanging best practice\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vaccination is high on the international agenda. New outbreaks of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11068,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=11068","url_meta":{"origin":11186,"position":0},"title":"Towards a Coalition for Vaccination","author":"efn efn","date":"March 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"In line with the objectives of the Council Recommendation on strengthened cooperation against vaccine-preventable diseases, adopted on 7 December 2018, this new Coalition is aiming \u201cto bring together European associations of healthcare workers as well as relevant students\u00b4 associations in the field, to commit to delivering accurate information to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Latest News"","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12368,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=12368","url_meta":{"origin":11186,"position":1},"title":"Nurses key role in vaccination awareness raising","author":"efn efn","date":"April 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite the demonstrated benefits of many kinds of vaccination it remains a controversial issue largely due to misinformation, restricted access, health illiteracy and cost. Alarmingly, the findings of the EU statistical Report \u2018Europeans\u2019 attitudes towards vaccination\u2019 and the EU Report \u2018State of vaccine confidence in the EU 2018\u2019, show that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Latest News"","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12815,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=12815","url_meta":{"origin":11186,"position":2},"title":"EU Vaccination Coalition Fostering the Role of Healthcare Professionals in Vaccination","author":"efn efn","date":"October 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Starting today, the EFN will launch a new social media campaign fostering the roles and competencies of healthcare professionals in vaccination: administering it to patients\/citizens and raising awareness on their safety and effectiveness. Vaccination continues to be the safest and effective public health measure that there is.\u00a0 \u00a0 Despite the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Latest News"","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11826,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=11826","url_meta":{"origin":11186,"position":3},"title":"The nurses’ contribution to the vaccines ecosystem","author":"efn efn","date":"October 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The vaccines ecosystem, as it stands now, is very complex. Processing agencies aim at cost minimisation, manufacturers want price maximisation, and the Member States the widest possible coverage. At the same time, we are seeing the rise of anti-vaccine movements, who benefit from this complexity and utilise them to spread\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Latest News"","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11583,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=11583","url_meta":{"origin":11186,"position":4},"title":"Nurses in the fight against vaccination hesitancy","author":"efn efn","date":"September 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Vaccination currently prevents 2-3 million deaths every year \u2013 that is its power. It is the most successful and cost-effective public health intervention that countries can opt for, and one of the biggest achievements of humanity in terms of public health. We all need to ensure that the population\u2019s confidence\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Latest News"","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12170,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=12170","url_meta":{"origin":11186,"position":5},"title":"Vaccination hesitancy \u2013 what can nurses do?","author":"efn efn","date":"January 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0European Council\u00a0Recommendation\u00a0on strengthened cooperation against vaccine-preventable diseases was adopted in December 2018. Since then, the EFN and other stakeholders have been very active in the fight against vaccination hesitancy across Europe. For example, the EFN, in the representation of the general care nurse profession, is co-chairing a Coalition for Vaccination,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Latest News"","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}