US EditionGlobal vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases
- A global analysis published in The Lancet on June 25, 2024, shows childhood vaccination efforts have stalled, leaving nearly 16 million children unvaccinated worldwide.
- This stall followed decades of progress since WHO’s Expanded Program on Immunization began in 1974 and worsened after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted vaccination programs globally.
- Vaccination rates have declined notably in wealthy countries like the U.S. and Europe, where exemptions and vaccine hesitancy have risen, while low-income countries face unequal access and ongoing conflicts.
- The report states an 11-fold measles spike in the Americas this year and a doubling of measles cases in Europe in 2024, with more than half of unvaccinated children living in eight countries including Nigeria and India.
- Researchers urge urgent measures against misinformation, increased investment, and equity-focused strategies to reverse the decline and meet 2030 immunization goals, warning outbreaks and deaths from preventable diseases could rise if trends continue.
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This mostly affects poorer countries, but the EU is not completely safe either.
For decades, vaccinations in children have progressed. However, the vaccination rate has been stagnating for some years.
The millenary struggle of the human being against diseases, especially in children, is suffering alarming setbacks all over the world. This is what indicates a study with data from about 200 countries (that is, practically the whole planet) of the medical journal The Lancet. Published this Tuesday, the document alerts the paralysis and even the reduction of infant immunization coverage, especially in developing areas, but also in some twenty dev…
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