Children Health and Anti-vaccination Rumors

Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions to improve health of children and other target age groups. It already save 2.5 million lives per year. Community partnership and confidence is crucial to reach high level vaccine coverage and immunization goals. With high immunization coverage and significant decrease of disease incidence, importance of immunization could fade and negative advertisements being more prominent. Although national immunization program has had great achievements in Iran however saving public confidence is a real need. Based on the experience of other countries, health system should follows antivaccination activities and respond them via appropriate communication. This paper wants to determine roots of antivaccination campaign in the world and in the country and also clear some distributed misinformation against immunization.