MANILA — As countries work round-the-clock to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, pharmaceutical industry experts on Thursday urged the Philippines to embark on a massive campaign to regain public trust in the government’s immunization program.
“There is a problem of trust in vaccines and vaccination, but this is not specific to the Philippines,” Dr. Jean-Antoine Zinsou, Philippine general manager of Sanofi Pateur, told an online forum. Vaccination for measles went down from over 80 percent to under 70 percent between 2008 and 2017, according to the WHO. Fear triggered by the controversy over the dengue vaccine was among the reasons for the low immunization rate for measles in select areas in Metro Manila, according to the Department of Health, citing a WHO study in October 2018.
Local governments, medical societies, and community organizations should come together to explain the benefits of immunization, Tamesis said. Tamesis said making one available by next year was “possible but it’s a stretch,” noting that vaccine development ordinarily took between 5 and 15 years to ensure efficacy.
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