2023-07-18 02:44:16
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“These data are encouraging,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
An uneven recovery
Despite these “promising signs”, coverage is still not reaching pre-pandemic levels (18.4 million), which UN agencies say puts children at serious risk of epidemics. And “the recovery is very uneven,” noted Kate O’Brien.
Rich countries are doing relatively well and the WHO has also found that “some countries – especially some very large low-middle-income countries, such as India and Indonesia”, have seen a very strong recovery, said. she indicated.
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She explained that the countries that see their vaccination coverage recover are generally those that invested in these programs on a regular basis before the pandemic, also citing Nepal, Kenya and Bangladesh.
On the other hand, “in all low-income countries, the recovery has only just begun, if indeed it exists in some of these countries”, indicated Kate O’Brien.
HPV vaccine coverage exceeds pre-pandemic levels
Overall, a major concern remains vaccination against measles – one of the most infectious pathogens – which has not recovered as well as other vaccines. Coverage for the first dose of the measles vaccine rose to 83% in 2022, from 81% in 2021, but remains below the 86% achieved in 2019.
In contrast, vaccination coverage against the human papillomavirus (HPV) exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time last year.
The UN launched a “big catch-up” campaign for childhood vaccinations almost three months ago, concentrated in twenty countries where three-quarters of the children in the world who missed vaccines in 2021 live.
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