International aid misinformation and cuts have helped to significantly reduce the vaccination and so diseases that had almost disappeared and can be avoided thanks to vaccination such as measles, meningitis and yellow fever reappear according to UN and the world alliance for vaccines and immunization (GAVI).
“Vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives over the last five decades,” said the General Manager of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Antanom Gembeges, on the occasion of World Vaccination Week.
‘The Financing cuts In global health, they put these advances achieved with hard efforts at risk. Epidems that could be avoided thanks to vaccines are increasing around the world, endangering lives and exposing countries to increasingly higher costs for the treatment of diseases and reaction to outbursts of epidemics, “he added.
OR measles makes ‘particularly dangerous return’emphasize in a joint announcement released by WHO, UNICEF and GAVI.
The number of cases is increased each year by 2021 and is estimated to reach 10.3 million in 2023 (+20% compared to 2022).
And this trend “probably” continues. In the last 12 months, 138 countries have reported measles cases, 61 of which they lived large -scale epidemics. This is “the highest number since 2019”, according to the announcement.
The cases of meningitis and yellow fever also increased abruptly in Africa in 2024.
These new upward trends are recorded against the backdrop of the misinformation of vaccines, the proliferation of humanitarian crises, demographic development and funding cuts, insists on the text, without nominally mentioned in the US, which suspended most of their abroad.
“The global funding crisis is seriously limiting our ability to vaccinate over 15 million vulnerable children against fragile and armed conflict countries,” warned UNICEF executives, Catherine Russell.
“Vaccination services, epidemiological surveillance and reaction are already facing problems in nearly 50 countries”, problems comparable to those recorded when the Pandemic of the new crowninghe added.
Although countries are trying to fill the gaps that had been accumulated during the pandemic, the number of children who have not been properly vaccinated as they should have been increasing as it should continue to increase. In 2023, 14.5 million children had not taken their dosesby estimates, from 13.9 million in 2022 and 12.9 million in 2019.
With this background and as an international donor meeting is approaching on June 25, Gavi is calling for at least $ 9 billion to “protect 500 million children and to save at least 8 million lives from 2026 to 2030”.