Child vaccination is plateauing worldwide with a gap of 14 million holding steady

In their annual estimate of covering global vaccines, which were released on Tuesday, the World Health Organization and UnicF said that about 89 % of children under the age of one year got a first dose of diphtheria, Tetanus vaccine, and a pertin cough vaccine in 2024, which is the same in 2023.

However, officials admitted that the collapse of international aid this year will make it difficult to reduce the number of unprotected children. In January, US president Trump withdrew the country from the World Health Organization, froze almost all humanitarian aid and later moved to the closure of the US Relief Agency. Last month, Minister of Health Robert F. said. Kennedy Junior was withdrawing the billions of dollars that the United States had previously pledged to the Gavi Echo Alliance, saying that the group “ignored the flag.”

Kennedy, a vaccine for a long time, has sparked a long time, that the Dakhlia, the Qaimali and the population-which has proven to be safe and effective after years of study and use in the real world. Vaccines are prohibited from 3.5 million to 5 million deaths annually, according to United Nations estimates.

“Radical discounts in aid, along with wrong information about the safety of vaccine, threatens to relax for decades of progress,” said General Manager Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

UN experts said that access to vaccines has been “very unequal” and that conflict crises and humanitarian crises have revealed progress quickly; Sudan got the slightest coverage reported against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. The data showed that nine countries representing 52 % of all children who fully have vaccinations: Nigeria, India, Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Angola.

The World Health Organization and UNICEF said that the covering against measles increased slightly, as 76 % of children around the world receive two vaccine doses. But experts say that measles vaccine rates need to reach 95 % to prevent the outbreak of the very gastric disease. Which indicated that 60 countries reported the outbreak of large measles last year.

The United States is now suffering from the worst outbring of measles in more than three decades, while the disease also increased throughout Europe, with 125,000 cases in 2024 – twice up to the previous year, according to the World Health Organization.

Last week, the British authorities reported that a child had died due to measles at Liverpool Hospital. Health officials said that despite the years of efforts to raise awareness, only about 84 % of children in the United Kingdom are protected.

“It is worrying, but not surprising at all, to continue to see measles outbreak,” said Helen Bradford, a child health professor at the University of London. “The only way to stop the spread of measles is vaccination,” she said in a statement. “It has not been too late for vaccination – even as an adult.”

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