UN URGES PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS TO ‘PROTECT YOUR WORLD, GET VACCINATED’ FOR IMMUNIZATION WEEK

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UN URGES PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS TO 'PROTECT YOUR WORLD, GET
VACCINATED' FOR IMMUNIZATION WEEK
New York, Apr 18 2013 10:00AM
There is an urgent need to improve vaccination supplies and to better
communicate the health benefits provided by vaccines, the United
Nations World Health Organization (WHO)
<"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/world_immunization_week_20130418/en/index.html">said
today ahead of World Immunization Week, noting that up to 22 million
children are not being immunized against preventable diseases.

"We have seen some major advances in the development and delivery of
vaccines in the past few years," said Dr. Flavia Bustreo, Assistant
Director-General at WHO. "But many countries still face obstacles in
getting life-saving vaccines to every child who needs them."

These challenges range from not being able to keep vaccines at the
correct temperature to incorrect recordkeeping to not allowing health
workers access to children, according to a joint news release from
WHO, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and their partners, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation and the GAVI Alliance.

The message comes ahead of World Immunization Week which starts on 20
April with its call to "protect your world, get vaccinated" in 180
countries, as part of an efforts to reach universal immunization
coverage.

Vaccination averts an estimated 2-3 million deaths every year,
according to UN figures, from preventable diseases such as diphtheria,
measles, whooping cough, pneumonia, polio rotavirus, diarrhoea,
rubella and tetanus.

In addition, UN agencies said there is a need to better communicate
the health benefits provided by vaccines and the dangers of not
immunizing children to parents and caregivers, countering myths that
the shots do not work or cause negative side effects.

"In some parts of the world, complacency about immunization has led
to gaps in vaccination coverage," said Geeta Rao Gupta, Deputy
Executive Director at UNICEF. "When gaps occur, outbreaks follow."

According to the Head of WHO Immunization division, Dr. Jean-Marie
Okwo-Bele, such a gap is the reason polio continues in parts of the
world.

"Close to 80 per cent of infants worldwide have received the full
course of basic vaccines, and this is very high in comparison to many
other public health programmes. But we are short of reaching
universal coverage. Twenty per cent short – and this explains why we
are behind schedule in achieving, for example, the eradication of
polio," Dr. Okwo-Bele said.

In recent years, there have been resurgences of diphtheria, measles
and rubella in developed and developing countries alike, WHO and
UNICEF reported. For example, outbreaks of measles have occurred in
France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Pakistan.
Apr 18 2013 10:00AM
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