Name: Mustaf Mohamed (KA15301), Ogbodo Charles (CA17130)

Title: V4L: Vaccines for life

Specific Purpose :The specific purpose of my topic is to persuade my audience that

immunizations are important and actually do more good than harm.

Central Idea: Immunizations are one of the most important medical advances in
history. They have severely reduced the effects of dozens of viral infections and
everyone should get immunized.

Introduction
Attention:

Attention Grabber: What do you all think is the most deadly disease? Cancer? HIV?
I’m actually terrified of the flu. Here’s a girl called scarlet who is five, loves sports and
sadly died due to measles which she could have been saved from if she had been
vaccinated

Credibility Statement: I had a very young cousin who could not take vaccinations due
to allergies and even though he was in the UK , a country of medical advancement, he
still contracted measles and went crtitcal. Just like my cousin their are many others who
suffer due to the lack of vaccinations

Tie to the audience:

Why are vaccines such a big deal in our communities? Vaccinations are important
to the community, thereby making them a civic artifact. Vaccinations are important
because they prevent several diseases such as small pox, polio, pertussis, and many
more viruses. Sadly some of you may never have been vaccinated or might know
someone who hasn’t.

Preview: - Need for vaccines

- How to increase the numbers of vaccinated kids
- A world with(out) vaccines
- What can you do?

-Today I’d like to talk to about the importance of abortion and the dangers that might
happen to them.
Need
The rise of vaccinable diseases has become a problem due to lack of vaccinations
1.Vaccinable diseases has become a large issue in Malaysia..
a. The number of measles cases in Pahang has alarmingly
increased by 200 percent (21 cases) this year compared
to only seven cases reported during the same period
between Jan 1 and March 16 last year..
b. Measles is highly contagious and is transmitted through
the air and direct contact with the patient. Children
infected by measles have to be isolated from others and
must not be allowed to attend day-care centres,
kindergartens or schools..
c. Malaysia rubella cases was at level of 116 in 2017, up
from 68 previous year, this is a change of 70.59 %.The
excessive bag weight load may have serious long-term
effect on student’s developing posture, growth.

2. Reduction in immunized kids and access

a. According to official statistics, the number of parents
refusing to immunise their children has tripled in the
last three years, from 470 to 1,282.
b. Malaysia's State Health director Norhizan Ismail has
named Kedah as one of the states with the most
vaccine rejection cases, amid concerns that parents
are putting their children at risk by refusing
vaccinations for the young ones..
c. It’s so low that doctors have called for all children in
Malaysia to be first immunised against diphtheria
and measles as a practical way of kickstarting a
compulsory policy on vaccination as suggested by
the Health Ministry..
d. A lack of immunisation was detected last year in all
six measles deaths recorded and in 19 of the 22
deaths from whooping cough (pertussis).

Satisfaction:
Main Point 2: Present Solution that Satisfies Need: How to make immunization
favourable and widely used.

1. Description of solution: Inadequate health communication between the experts

and the public is believed to contribute to vaccine hesitancy and misconceptions about
vaccines. In an attempt to counter the vaccine hesitancy, several strategies must be
well-planned to educate and improve confidence among them. These include adapting
the specific political, social, cultural and economic contexts of countries to provide a
comprehensive campaign on the merits and benefits of vaccination, access to
health-care and blocking of fake news on vaccinations There are three main parties
that must work together towards this countering approach. They are the government,
community and individuals.

(i) Make sure that all children have access to health care. It isn’t just
vaccine hesitancy that gets in the way of vaccination. For many families, it’s
more about not having a doctor nearby — or not having health insurance or
other means of paying for health care. While there are programs that help with
the cost of the vaccines themselves, they don’t cover the cost of the doctor’s
visit and other well-child care that usually comes along with vaccines. Health
care access and coverage is important for all aspects of child health, of course
— vaccines are just one part, but an important part.
(ii) Make sure that all parents have access to accurate information
about vaccines and coordinated campaigns. There are a lot of rumors out there,
such as that vaccines cause autism (they don’t) or that spacing out vaccines is
better for babies (it’s not). With the rise of the Internet, it has become easier
for misinformation to spread — and once parents are afraid, that can be hard
to undo. There is lots of good scientific evidence to show that vaccines are
both effective and safe, and we need to do a better job of getting that
information to parents.

(iii) Tighter sanctions on anti-vaccinations articles and website posts.

While Mala
2. Counterarguments

(i) "Vaccines cause many harmful side effects, illnesses, and even
death - not to mention possible long-term effects we don't even know
about.": One myth that won't seem to go away is that DTP vaccine causes
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). This belief came about because a
moderate proportion of children who die of SIDS have recently been
vaccinated with DTP; on the surface, this seems to point toward a causal
connection. This logic is faulty however; you might as well say that eating
bread causes car crashes, since most drivers who crash their cars could
probably be shown to have eaten bread within the past 24 hours.If you
consider that most SIDS deaths occur during the age range when three shots of
DTP are given, you would expect DTP shots to precede a fair number of SIDS
deaths simply by chance. In fact, when a number of well-controlled studies
were conducted during the 1980s, the investigators found, nearly unanimously,
that the number of SIDS deaths temporally associated with DTP vaccination
was within the range expected to occur by chance.
 (ii) "Vaccine-preventable diseases have been virtually eliminated
from my country, so there is no need for my child to be vaccinated.": It is
true that vaccination has enabled us to reduce most vaccine-preventable
diseases to very low levels in many countries. However, some of them are still
quite prevalent — even epidemic — in other parts of the world. Travelers can
unknowingly bring these diseases into any country, and if the community were
not protected by vaccinations, these diseases could quickly spread throughout
the population, causing epidemics there.At the same time, the relatively few
cases that a country may currently have could very quickly become tens or
hundreds of thousands of cases without the protection given by vaccines.

3. Statistics for proposed solution:

(i) Campaigns: A mass measles vaccination campaign saved tens of

thousands of children's lives in India between 2010 and 2013, according to a
report published today in eLife.

(ii) Health-care access: Those born outside government hospitals (country

side people) may pay up to RM900 for vaccinations in government hospitals in
Malaysia, giving them access like regular citizens could increase the number of
immunized citizens

(iii) Fake news: A study done in Italy showed that a crack down on fake
news can cause a 10% increase on the rate of vaccinations.

Visualization:

a) Describe what the situation will look like if the audience does nothing:

Vaccines are responsible for the control of many infectious diseases that were once

common in this country. However, the viruses and bacteria that cause

vaccine-preventable disease and death still exist and can be passed on to people who are

not protected by vaccines. Vaccine-preventable diseases have a costly impact, resulting

in doctor's visits, hospitalizations, and premature deaths. Sick children can also cause

parents to lose time from work.

 b) Motivate the audience to agree:

If we vaccinate our children there will be reduction of the burden of infectious

diseases. There are also benefits of Vaccination such as: Control of mortality,

morbidity and complications, Elimination of certain diseases and Disease

control benefits for the next generation.

Call to action:
Summarize your proposal:
1. To stop spreading fake news of vaccination being dangerous to the human
body
2. To check if they are vaccinated at their local hospital and get vaccinated
3. To advise their family and friends to get vaccinated and advise new parents
to vaccinate their child at least when they are infants.
Close the speech in a memorable way:
The Vaccination process on the human body helps us to live life to the fullest
and helps our immune system.
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