Overcoming fears Fears, rumours and myths spread as quickly as the virus the campaign is trying to stop.
In an effort to prevent the transmission and acquisition of the influenza virus, an educational campaign was designed to increase awareness to the importance of hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette.
Following the surge of the Zika virus, the nationwide campaign "10 minutes against dengue", which instructed Brazilians on how to eliminate potential mosquito breeding sites from their homes, is to be relaunched as "10 minutes saves lives" in affected states.
We evaluated the 2003 Kansas West Nile virus public education campaign.
After Australia recently reported positive results from its human papilloma virus (HPV) immunization campaign, US data show the effectiveness of HPV vaccines.
Seventeen rural village sites in seven of the 10 provinces in Cameroon were selected as part of a community-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention campaign study designed to provide information and decrease transmission.
Community leaders, civic society, non-governmental organizations, youth volunteers, as well as the private sector all joined in urging caretakers to immunize their children against the virus, in a campaign which covered all Egyptian governorates.
Eastern time yesterday, set in motion a chain of events that spread the error like a virus into the Gore campaign's inner sanctum and onto the front pages of many of the nation's newspapers.
At the time of the Variola virus (VARV) WHO eradication campaign, these complications were relatively rare, and considering that smallpox was endemic or epidemic in these regions, smallpox immunizations were more beneficial than harmful [2].
NCD: Non-communicable disease; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; CHC: Community health campaign; BP: Blood pressure; WHO: World Health Organization; ISH: International Society of Hypertension; JNC7: Seventh report of the Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure; BMI: Body mass index.
So far Latin American governments have responded to the virus primarily by launching campaigns to eradicate the mosquito and recommending people use ample amounts of insect repellent.
