News about vaccine • children

Vaccines have saved 154M lives in 50 years - but millions of children still miss out. This week, world leaders and @gavi members - including UNICEF, the EU & @gatesfoundation - will advocate for new vaccine funding. Governments must scale up support to protect 500M children. pic.x.com/N4zqETBspd

154m deaths avoided but vaccination rates stall In @NPR Edward Parker @LSHTM_Vaccines discusses "immense data curation effort" behind global #immunisation study revealing decline in routine vaccinations. www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/06/24/g-s1-74170/childhood-vaccinations-progress

The Covid pandemic clearly had a depressive effect on global vaccination coverage, discouraging some people from accepting vaccines & stalling efforts in developing countries to vaccinate kids. But the decline in rates started sooner, a new study shows. www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/vaccination-rate-for-children-slows-global-progress-against-infectious-disease-threatened/

“Whatever progress we’ve made could be reversed if we don’t maintain and build on our successful immunization efforts to date.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/vaccination-rate-for-children-slows-global-progress-against-infectious-disease-threatened/