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Updated 28/10/2009
Prevention: a child receives a vaccine during a campaign carried out in the city of La Paz currently 012,345 Voting Results Currently, 60
The international body has been significant progress in the world, but it is noteworthy that there are still excluded children in poor countries and calls on governments to increase access
Although at present are immunized more children than ever against the most common killer diseases, at least 24 million infants remain unprotected due to lack of access to vaccines and the lack of sufficient funds.
A report released by the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF), World Bank (WB) and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that no vaccine to one in four children in the routine immunization against preventable childhood diseases like measles, tetanus and diphtheria.
The report entitled "Global State of vaccines and immunization, according to Unicef also demonstrates, that the recent reduction in infant mortality rates is a direct result of increased immunization tasks.
"Globally, mortality due to measles fell by 74 percent between 2000 and 2007, and vaccination was an important factor in this decline," said Ann M. Veneman, UNICEF executive director.
"These enhancements should provide a model for worldwide increased efforts to immunize children against diseases that threaten their lives."
The doctor Mickey Chopra, head of UNICEF's Health, said that these vaccines are "wonderful" but warns that due to lack of funds is not possible to incorporate new vaccines into national immunization programs of countries that most need .
The report emphasizes the important role played by vaccination with regard to prevention of a wide range of diseases.
In the past 30 years, immunization against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles and tuberculosis has become a routine health practice, and it is estimated that thanks to vaccination are saved annually about 2 5 million young lives.
In Bolivia there are significant advances in the scope of the basic vaccines since the creation in 1979, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Today the movement has been eliminated from wild polio virus and is about to eradicate measles virus. For over a decade not reported any cases of polio in the country, and since 2003 has not been reported measles cases. In recent years it has made a massive campaign against yellow fever with 95 percent coverage. Also began with the elimination of congenital rubella syndrome.
To make further progress in the world, Unicef said, is necessary to increase the access to the entire population and achieve greater control of the cold chain for storing and transporting doses. Even in countries with high levels of coverage are children who have been excluded.
Bolivia has eradicated polio and is about to do the same with measles
Updated 28/10/2009
Prevention: a child receives a vaccine during a campaign carried out in the city of La Paz currently 012,345 Voting Results Currently, 60
The international body has been significant progress in the world, but it is noteworthy that there are still excluded children in poor countries and calls on governments to increase access
Although at present are immunized more children than ever against the most common killer diseases, at least 24 million infants remain unprotected due to lack of access to vaccines and the lack of sufficient funds.
A report released by the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF), World Bank (WB) and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that no vaccine to one in four children in the routine immunization against preventable childhood diseases like measles, tetanus and diphtheria.
The report entitled "Global State of vaccines and immunization, according to Unicef also demonstrates, that the recent reduction in infant mortality rates is a direct result of increased immunization tasks.
"Globally, mortality due to measles fell by 74 percent between 2000 and 2007, and vaccination was an important factor in this decline," said Ann M. Veneman, UNICEF executive director.
"These enhancements should provide a model for worldwide increased efforts to immunize children against diseases that threaten their lives."
The doctor Mickey Chopra, head of UNICEF's Health, said that these vaccines are "wonderful" but warns that due to lack of funds is not possible to incorporate new vaccines into national immunization programs of countries that most need .
The report emphasizes the important role played by vaccination with regard to prevention of a wide range of diseases.
In the past 30 years, immunization against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles and tuberculosis has become a routine health practice, and it is estimated that thanks to vaccination are saved annually about 2 5 million young lives.
In Bolivia there are significant advances in the scope of the basic vaccines since the creation in 1979, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Today the movement has been eliminated from wild polio virus and is about to eradicate measles virus. For over a decade not reported any cases of polio in the country, and since 2003 has not been reported measles cases. In recent years it has made a massive campaign against yellow fever with 95 percent coverage. Also began with the elimination of congenital rubella syndrome.
To make further progress in the world, Unicef said, is necessary to increase the access to the entire population and achieve greater control of the cold chain for storing and transporting doses. Even in countries with high levels of coverage are children who have been excluded.
Bolivia has eradicated polio and is about to do the same with measles