(AGENPARL) – ven 21 aprile 2023 “The Big Catch-up”, a targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic
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Friday, 21 April 2023
MEDIA ADVISORY
Press Conference on World Immunization Week and “The Big Catch-Up”
When: Monday, 24 April at 16.15 CEST
Subject: World Immunization Week and “The Big Catch-up”, a targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic
25 million children missed at least one essential vaccine in 2021 and 18 million children in the world received no vaccines at all. Action to catch-up is needed everywhere, and especially in the 20 low- and middle-income countries where over three-quarters of children who missed vaccinations live.
Speaker: Dr Kate O’Brien, WHO Director of Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), WHO
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Notes to journalists
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