The pandemic has significantly affected vaccination campaigns around the world, two UN agencies warned on Thursday. The number of children vaccinated in
The pandemic has significantly affected vaccination campaigns around the world, two UN agencies warned on Thursday.
The number of children vaccinated in the world, which has been stagnant for 10 years, has decreased alarmingly due to the Covid-19 pandemic, two UN agencies warned this Thursday. Before the appearance of the coronavirus at the end of 2019, vaccination rates against DTP3 (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) and measles had already stagnated at 85%, with 14 million children unvaccinated per year, mainly in Africa. , recalled the WHO (World Health Organization) and Unicef (United Nations Children’s Fund).
The pandemic has affected vaccination campaigns in three-quarters of 82 countries, according to an online survey conducted in June by the two agencies and the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi). The report is particularly concerned about the decline in DTP3 vaccines in the first four months of this year, especially due to transportation difficulties, restrictions caused by the pandemic or fear of contagion.
“The pandemic threat of this progress”
At least 30 measles vaccination campaigns are under threat worldwide, the agencies say. “Vaccines are one of the most powerful tools in the history of health, and now more children than ever are immune,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press release.
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“But the pandemic threatens this progress,” he emphasized, and called on the country to guarantee the continuation of its immunization policy. “Covid-19 has turned what was once a routine vaccination into a worrying challenge,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. “We must urgently start vaccination programs before children’s lives are threatened by other diseases. We cannot replace one health crisis with another,” she said.
Date Updated: July 15, 2020, 1:58 PM
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