On the initiative of WHO, World Vaccination Week is the opportunity to raise public awareness of the vital importance of vaccination throughout life.
The number of children in the world who are not vaccinated or are inadequately vaccinated is 19.4 million, according to WHO.
In France, the latest data from the Institute of Health Monitoring (InVS) indicate that in children, there is vaccination coverage of 91% against diphtheria, tetanus, polio and whooping cough. With regard to vaccination coverage of Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), it is only 72% in children of 24 months.
To understand the individual and collective challenges of vaccination, in partnership with Muscadier publications, Inserm has published an educational manual explaining the function of vaccines, their role and their benefits but also their limits:
“Vaccination: Agression or Protection? “, in the Choc Santé collection, edited by Annick Guimenazes, an Inserm researcher at the Marseille-Luminy Centre of Immunology (CIML) and Marion Mathieu, Doctor of Biology and engineer at ESPCI-ParisTech.
The recent occurrence of epidemics and pandemics – the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and that of Zika in the Americas, have highlighted the urgency of developing vaccines, by creating innovative partnerships between the different participants in global vaccine research.
For Yves Lévy, Chairman and CEO of Inserm: “The Ebola epidemic proved that we can develop vaccines quickly in extremely difficult conditions. It also proved that one of the keys to success is the willingness of all those involved to work hand in hand.”
Inserm, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, LSHTM, in collaboration with the health authorities of Guinea and Liberia, have launched a new clinical trial on the Ebola vaccine candidates, under the aegis of the PREVAC (Partnership for Research on Ebola VACcination) international consortium.
Vaccination
Annick Guimezanes
Co-author of Choc Santé “Vaccination, aggression or protection”
Immunologist, former researcher at Inserm
+33 6 77 97 95 75
a.guimezanes@worldonline.frOdile Launay
Coordinator of the National Network for Clinical Research in Vaccinology
Clinical Investigation Centre for Vaccinology
CIC Cochin Pasteur
+33 1 58 41 28 60
odile.launay@cch.aphp.fr
Brigitte Autran
Unité 1135 Centre for Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Director of the Medical Biology and Pathology Centre and of the Department of Immunology
Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière
+33 1 42 17 74 03
brigitte.autran@psl.aphp.fr
CoReVac - National Consortium for Vaccine Research
corevac@gmail.comPREVAC
Yazdan Yazdanpanah
Director of ITMO - Immunology, Inflammation, Infectious Disease and Microbiology
Principal investigator of the PREVAC study
yazdan.yazdanpanah@inserm.fr
+33 612 14 21 56