The coverage of child vaccination It has not returned to the values prior to the covid pandemic and immunization rates continue to stagnate or decline in 34 countries, according to data published this Tuesday by the World Health Organization (OMS) and the United Nations agency for the protection of children (UNICEF).
Of the 73 countries that recorded significant declines (5 percentage points or more) in vaccination rates, 15 have recovered and 24 are on track to do so.
“These data are encouraging and are a tribute to those who have worked so hard to restore immunization services,” said the director general of the OMS Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
However, he also acknowledged that these global and regional averages do not count “they hide serious and persistent inequalities.”
Although in 2022 the number of children who did not receive one or more routine vaccinations decreased by four million, 20.5 million children did not receive one or more doses of the Tdap (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) vaccine, which is the one that use the OMS as a reference to measure the global immunization rate.
Of these minors, 14.3 million did not receive any dose in 2022, a figure higher than the 12.9 million in 2019 (before covid), but less than the 18.1 million children with zero doses in 2021, when the world was still in the acute stage of the pandemic.
Gains in well-resourced countries with large child populations, such as India or Indonesia, mask slower recovery or even continued declines in most low-income countries, especially for measles vaccination, according to the OMS.
The report indicates that, in 2022, almost 22 million children did not receive the measles vaccine in their first year of life (2.7 million more than in 2019).
2023-07-18 00:04:00
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