2024-07-15 00:00:07
On January 22, 2024, a measles and rubella vaccination campaign was conducted in Gedarif, Sudan.
Delays in childhood vaccinations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have yet to be made up. Nonetheless, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have set out two top priorities and reiterated them in their annual report released on Monday 15 July.
The first goal: Return to pre-pandemic vaccination levels. In 2024, there is no significant improvement or decline. The number of young people vaccinated once morest diphtheria, tetanus and polio (DTP) in 2023 is almost the same as in 2022. But it is still below pre-COVID levels: 84% of children globally will have received three doses of DTP vaccine in 2023, compared with 86% in 2019. The benchmark, or vaccination efforts around the world have been suffering setbacks year following year.
The same observation was made regarding the fight once morest measles. The two U.N. agencies noted that the number of people vaccinated once morest the disease has stagnated in 2023 compared with 2022. The measles vaccination program consists of two injections.
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Second goal to be achieved: Halve the number of boys and girls who are not in education No dose DTP vaccine By 2030. According to statistics from the World Health Organization and UNICEF, before the outbreak of the health crisis in 2019, there were 12.8 million unvaccinated children worldwide. Not to mention those who didn’t complete the vaccination schedule because they didn’t receive all their booster shots.
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Where do these children live who are not protected from any disease? The response highlighted inequalities across the globe. More than half of the girls and boys who had received neither DPT (59%) nor measles vaccine (55%) came from just 10 countries. Among them, three African countries stand out. Nigeria, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo have the highest numbers of unvaccinated children. We must add the Indian giant of Asia. By 2023, three new countries will be added to the list: Sudan, Yemen and Afghanistan, all of which have in common the fact that they are at war or in serious unrest.
The World Health Organization and Unicef were also unable to include certain territories, such as Gaza, in their studies due to a lack of data since October 7, 2023, and the outbreak of the war between Hamas and Israel. “Nonetheless, we note a decrease in vaccination rates among Palestinian children”Katherine O’Brien, director of the World Health Organization’s immunization, vaccines and biologics department, is worried. On the other hand, she added, “Vaccination coverage in Ukraine is making progress”.
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