The World Immunisation Week is celebrated every year in the last week of April (24-30). Its purpose is to promote the use of vaccines in order to protect people of all ages against diseases. Immunisation saves millions of lives every year and is widely recognised as one of the world’s most crucial and successful health interventions. Nonetheless, there are still almost 20 million children in the world today who are not getting the vaccines they need, and many miss out on vital vaccines during adolescence, adulthood and into old age.
Using the theme ‘Vaccines bring us closer’, World Immunisation Week 2021 will encourage greater engagement around immunisation globally to promote the importance of vaccination in bringing people together, and improving the health and wellbeing of everyone, everywhere throughout life.
As part of the 2021 campaign, WHO, partners and individuals around the world will unite to increase trust and confidence in vaccines to maintain or increase vaccine acceptance as well as to enhance investment in vaccines, including basic immunisation, mainly through removing barriers to access.
While the world focuses on critically important new vaccines to protect against COVID-19, there remains a need to ensure routine vaccinations are not omitted. Many children have not been vaccinated during the global pandemic, leaving them in danger of serious diseases such as measles and polio. Rapidly circulating misinformation around the topic of vaccination makes the threat even greater.
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