New York, New York, Sept. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alongside the 78th United Nations General Assembly, Global Impact as fiscal sponsor for the Advancing Health Online Initiative (AHO), announced an innovative collaboration with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, centered around VaxSocial, an initiative supporting country-driven projects that leverage social media and behavioral science to build confidence around routine immunizations.

纽约，纽约，2023年9月19日（GLOBE NEWSWIRE）-与第78届联合国大会一起，作为推进健康在线倡议（AHO）财政赞助商的全球影响宣布与Gavi，疫苗联盟，以VaxSocial为中心，这项倡议支持利用社交媒体和行为科学建立常规免疫信心的国家驱动项目。

Advancing Health Online (AHO), a fiscally sponsored project of Global Impact, is an initiative launched and financially supported by Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ USA (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) and Meta in June 2021 to advance public understanding of how social media can be utilized to better understand and increase the health and resiliency of communities around the world by bringing actors together from technology, health, global development, and the academic sector.

推进健康在线（AHO）是一个由金融赞助的全球影响项目，是由默克公司，Rahway，美国新泽西州（在美国和加拿大以外称为MSD）和Meta于2021年6月推出，通过将技术参与者聚集在一起，促进公众对如何利用社交媒体更好地理解和提高世界各地社区的健康和适应能力的理解，健康，全球发展和学术部门。

AHO’s goal is to support effective integration of social media as a core component of social behavior change (SBC) to improve health outcomes. To achieve this, AHO collaborates with organizations working at the intersection of technology, global health, and SBC. Vaccine hesitancy long precedes the lack of confidence witnessed globally during the COVID-19 pandemic and may stem from distrust in the vaccine provider and medical system.

AHO的目标是支持社交媒体的有效整合，作为社会行为改变（SBC）的核心组成部分，以改善健康结果。为实现这一目标，AHO与技术，全球卫生和SBC交叉点工作的组织合作。在COVID-19大流行期间全球缺乏信心之前，疫苗犹豫早已出现，可能源于对疫苗提供者和医疗系统的不信任。

This had led to low vaccination uptake with potentially life-threatening consequences. However, the global pandemic also exposed the need for new ways of collaborating across health and technological sectors to address this complex issue and strengthen the resiliency of communities. AHO and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance recognized the opportunity to test innovative, promising, and multi-disciplinary approaches that leverage .

这导致疫苗接种率低，可能危及生命。然而，全球流行病还表明需要在卫生和技术部门之间开展新的合作方式来解决这一复杂问题并加强社区的复原力。AHO和Gavi，疫苗联盟认识到有机会测试利用的创新，有前途和多学科方法。