Vaccines stimulate the body’s immune system to protect a person against infection or disease. For this reason, around the world campaigns are presented to raise awareness of how essential vaccination is.
Personalities from the world of sports, singers and other artists also participate in these campaigns. What celebrities are promoting vaccination? We bring you some names.
Xuxa, better known as the “Queen of the Shorties” joined a campaign in Brazil together with Zé Gotinhaa Brazilian mascot that was created to promote vaccination against poliovirus.
The artist is one of the ambassadors of the National Vaccination Movement, a national mobilization of the Government to recover the high rates of vaccination coverage.
In Argentina, the singer of La Mosca, Guillermo Novellis, who together with the musicians were part of last April’s campaign of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for the 21st Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA). They made an adapted version of the song Muchachos, which became popular during the 2022 Soccer World Cup in Qatar.
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With this campaign they launched a message of prevention of polio, measles, chickenpox and the flu and La Mosca invited “everyone to put on the one that is missing.”
Salma Hayek, has also joined these messages. The actress has been working for years to promote childhood vaccination.’
Former British soccer player David Beckham, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and founder of Fund 7 for UNICEF, spearheaded a global initiative to encourage parents around the world to get their children vaccinated by 2021.
The famous one focuses especially on maternal and neonatal tetanus, a disease that affects mothers in developing countries who give birth at home in unsanitary conditions.
Elton John and actor Michael Caine joined forces to make an advertisement that encouraged the public to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
While, Lionel Messi helped get 50 thousand vaccines against covid, that were produced in China, to vaccinate soccer players before the 2021 Copa América.
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Also former player David Beckham, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and founder of Fund 7 for UNICEF, spearheaded a global initiative to encourage parents around the world to vaccinate their children in 2021.
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2023-08-26 19:26:28
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