{"id":4150,"date":"2023-07-18T19:42:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2023-07-18T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:43:13","slug":"after-a-historic-downturn-due-to-the-pandemic-childhood-immunizations-are-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/07\/18\/after-a-historic-downturn-due-to-the-pandemic-childhood-immunizations-are-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"After a historic downturn due to the pandemic, childhood immunizations are improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/07\/18\/1188232006\/after-a-historic-downturn-due-to-the-pandemic-childhood-immunizations-are-improv\">NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fewer children around the world missed receiving routine vaccinations in 2022 compared to the year before, indicating a rebound in childhood immunizations following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new statistics released by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, 20.5 million children did not get one or more rounds of the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) vaccine, which is used as a global marker for immunization coverage, according to a joint statement&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/18-07-2023-childhood-immunization-begins-recovery-after-covid-19-backslide\">released Tuesday<\/a>&nbsp;by WHO and UNICEF. That&#8217;s compared to the 24.4 million children who missed out on one ore more rounds of that vaccinate in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These data are encouraging, and a tribute to those who have worked so hard to restore life-saving immunization services after two years of sustained decline in immunization coverage,&#8221; Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said in the statement. &#8220;But global and regional averages don&#8217;t tell the whole story and mask severe and persistent inequities. When countries and regions lag, children pay the price.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizations note that the current numbers remain higher than the 18.4 million children who missed out on the DTaP vaccine in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A previous report released by UNICEF&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicefusa.org\/reports\/state-worlds-children-2023\">earlier this year<\/a>&nbsp;found that 67 million children across the world missed out on some or all routine vaccinations between 2019 and 2021, and 48 million didn&#8217;t receive any doses over the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers were a reflection of how disruptive the COVID-19 pandemic has been on basic health services, Brian Keeley, editor-in-chief of UNICEF&#8217;s annual report,\u00a0<em>State of the World&#8217;s Children<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2023\/04\/19\/1170635284\/why-millions-of-kids-arent-getting-their-routine-vaccinations\">told NPR<\/a>\u00a0this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/07\/18\/1188232006\/after-a-historic-downturn-due-to-the-pandemic-childhood-immunizations-are-improv\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR Fewer children around the world missed receiving routine vaccinations in 2022 compared to the year before, indicating a rebound in childhood immunizations following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new statistics released by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Last year, 20.5 million children did not get one or more rounds of the DTaP (diphtheria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}