The agency requires continuous investment in vaccinations as funds are cut..
April 24, 2025 | Geneva/New York- Exemption efforts are increasing as the wrong information, population growth, humanitarian crisis and financing are in danger of progress and risks of millions of children, adolescents and adults.
The onset of vaccine prevention, such as measles, meningitis, and yellow fever, is rising worldwide, and there is a risk of re -emerging diseases such as diphtheria, which have been held underwater or missing in many countries. As a result, institutions have demanded urgent and continuous political interests and investment to protect the significant progress achieved when strengthening vaccinations and giving child mortality over the past 50 years.
“The vaccine has saved more than 150 million lives in the last 50 years,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyyeesus said. The onset of vaccine preventable diseases is increasing worldwide, and has been in danger of life and the state has been exposed to increased costs for disease treatment and development. A country with limited resources should invest in the most influential mediation.
Increased onset and transformation health system
Measles are especially having a dangerous comeback. Since 2021, the number of cases in the year has increased, tracking the decrease in the scope of vaccination after Covid-19 pandemic in many communities. The measles accounted for about 13.3 million in 2023, up 20% from 2022.
These institutions warned that the rise will continue until 2024 and 2025. In the last 12 months, 138 countries have reported measles, and 61 have suffered a large or destructive occurrence.
In the case of Africa’s meningitis, it also rose sharply in 2024, and the trend continued in 2025. In the first three months of this year, more than 5,500 cases of suspected cases and almost 300 deaths in 22 countries. This follows about 26,000 cases last year and almost 1400 deaths.
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The case of yellow fever in Africa has also been climbing, and 124 cases have been reported in 12 countries in 2024. This occurs due to the rapid decrease in the disease and the use of yellow heat vaccines in the rapid decrease in disease and everyday vaccination programs. In the US WHO region, yellow fever has been confirmed since the beginning of this year, and there are 131 cases in four countries.
Such onset occurs in the reduction of global funding. recent Who takes up fast stocks In the 108 WHO’s 108 countries (mainly in low -income and low -income countries), almost half of these countries are facing serious interruptions in the secondary priority for the supply of vaccination campaigns, daily vaccinations and donor funds. Surveillance of diseases, including vaccine preventive diseases, is also affected by more than half of the countries subject to investigation.
At the same time, the number of children who have missed daily vaccination in recent years, despite trying to catch children missed during the epidemic period, has been increasing recently. In 2023, about 14.5 million children missed all routine vaccine doses from 13.9 million in 2022 to 12.9 million in 2019. More than half of these children live in countries facing the conflict, vulnerability, or instability, which is often destroyed by basic health services.
UNICEF, executive director of UNICEF, said, “The global funding crisis is seriously limiting the ability to vaccine more than 15 million weak children in countries that are weak and affected by conflict. During the covid-19, we can’t afford to lose their grounds in the fight against preventable diseases. “
Continuous investments in ‘Big Catch-up Initiative’, which began in 2023, have been started to reach children who missed vaccines during Covid-19 Pandemic, and other everyday vaccinations will be important.
How to solve this challenge for vaccination
The joint efforts of WHO, UNICEF, GAVI, and partners helped the state to expand access to vaccines and strengthen the immune system through primary health care. Every year, vaccines save almost 4.2 million lives for 14 diseases, almost half of this life in Africa.
The vaccination campaign has been removed from the African meningitis belt, and the new vaccine, which protects the five strains of meningitis, has a promise of extensive protection, and efforts are being made to expand the use of onset reactions and prevention.
In addition, it has developed to reduce the case and death of yellow disease through everyday vaccinations and emergency vaccine stocks, but the recent developments in Africa and the Americas emphasize the risks of areas that have not been reported in the past and have many gaps in preventive campaigns.
In the last two years, there have been significant progress in other immunity. In Africa, with the highest cervical cancer burden in the world, the range of HPV vaccines has doubled from 21%to 40%between 2020 and 2023, reflecting worldwide efforts worldwide. Remove cervical cancer. The progress of vaccination includes an increase in the global coverage of pneumococcal conjugates vaccines, especially in Southeast Asia, with the introduction of Chad and Somalia, which have a high disease burden.
Another milestone is the introduction of a sub -country of malaria vaccines in almost 20 African countries, and by 2035, more countries have been accelerated as part of a tool for scaling up the scaled up to Malaria.
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UNICEF, and Gabi urgently require parents, public and politicians to strengthen their support for vaccination. The institution emphasizes the need for continuous investment in vaccine and vaccination programs and urges the state to respect the promise to the vaccination agenda 2030 (IA2030).
As part of the integrated primary medical system, vaccinations can be protected from the disease and the family can be connected to other essential treatments such as prenatal treatment, nutrition or malaria selection. Vaccination is a $ 54 investment in all dollars invested, and it is ‘best by’ for health and provides the foundation for future prosperity and health security.
“The inherent infectious disease is a concern for the world. The good news is that we can fight. And the next strategic period of Gavi is to expand our investment in vaccine reserves around the world and to expand our defense by expanding target prevention vaccinations in countries that are most affected by meningitis, yellow and measurement.” If you haven’t completely funded for five years, these important activities will be in danger. We require donors to support our mission to safely protect all people, everywhere and preventive diseases. “
GAVI’s upcoming high-level summit summit, which will be held on June 25, 2025, can raise at least 80 million people from 2026-2030 by raising funds for ambitious strategies to protect 500 million children by raising at least $ 9 billion from a donor.
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