While the global vaccination rates of children have reflected from their malaise from the COVID era, the UN warned Tuesday that wrong information and deep care nowadays feed dangerous coverings and jeopardize millions of children.
In 2024, 85% of the infants worldwide, or 109 million, had received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (DTP), where the third dose served as an important marker for global immunization coverage, according to data published by the UN health and children of children.
That meant an increase of one percentage point and a million more children covered than a year earlier, in what the agencies described as “modest” profit.
At the same time, almost 20 million babies missed at least one of their DTP doses last year, including 14.3 million so-called zero dose “children who have never received one shot.
Although a slight improvement compared to 2023, when the United Nations said that there were 14.5 million children of zero dose, it was 1.4 million more than in 2019 the Covid Pandemie caused damage to global vaccination programs.
“The good news is that we have succeeded in reaching more children with life-saving vaccines,” said Unicef chef Catherine Russell in a joint explanation.
“But millions of children stay without protecting diseases,” she said.
Although lack of access worldwide was the main cause of low coverage, the agencies also emphasized the threat of wrong information.
The decreasing trust in “acid -deserved evidence about the safety of the vaccines” contributes to dangerous immunity locations and outbreaks, which vaccinate Chief Kate O’Brien against reporters.
Experts have sounded an alarm in the United States, especially, where health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. For a long time it is accused of spreading wrong information about vaccine, including the measles vaccine, even while the US shakes in 30 years in 30 years in 30 years.
Last year, 60 countries experienced large and disturbing outbreaks of the highly contagious disease, almost doubled from 33 in 2022, the report showed.
An estimated two million more children worldwide were vaccinated against measles in 2024 than the year before, but worldwide coverage remained far below 95% needed to prevent the spread.
In a positive note, Tuesday’s report showed that the cover of the vaccine against a series of diseases last year had occurred in the 57 low-income countries supported by the vaccine Alliance Gavi.
“In 2024, countries with a lower income protected more children than ever before,” said Gavi Chief Sania Nishtar.
But the data also indicated “signs of slipping” that emerged in countries in the higher center and high income where the coverage had previously been at least 90%.
“Even the smallest drops in immunization coverage can have devastating consequences,” said O’Brien.
