Skip to main content

Anti-Vaccine movements rise in South-East Asia

by Futures Centre, May 16
1 minute read

Vaccination rates for measles have been dropping in South-East Asia since 2017.

Crowded Train by Chang Hsien

The number of vaccinated individuals in the region has fallen below the 95% mark which is needed to fully immunise a community from the disease. The World Health Organisation has reported that this has caused a 50% increase in cases of measles in the last year.

Anti-vaccine beliefs are the result of a growing mistrust of medical experts and pharmaceutical companies. The miscommunication of false information has fuelled this distrust.

Furthermore, ethical and religious concerns play a part in the anti-vaccine movement. 70 million children in Indonesia were prevented from being vaccinated as the vaccine contained pig components.

Malaysia’s Health Ministry is considering changing the law to make vaccination compulsory for all school children, as it is in Singapore, where, in contrast, there were just 27 cases of measles last year.

 

Details

  • Other Tags:
by Futures Centre Spotted 1998 signals

Have you spotted a signal of change?

Register to receive the latest from the Futures Centre.
Sign up

  • 0
  • Share

Related signals

Our use of cookies

We use necessary cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set optional analytics cookies to help us improve it. We won't set optional cookies unless you enable them. Using this tool will set a cookie on your device to remember your preferences.

For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our Cookies page.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Analytics cookies

We'd like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. For more information on how these cookies work, please see our 'Cookies page'.

>