Decreased aid and misleading information threatens to vaccinate children globally

Fitzing rates around the world recorded stability, after the decline witnessed during the “Kovid -19” crisis, according to what the United Nations announced yesterday, but the misleading information and the decline in international aid constitute new threats.

In 2024, only 85% of children received in the age group whose personnel should receive this vaccine, or 108 million children, three doses of the screw vaccine, trees, and pertily cough, or the DTP triple, as the third dose is a major indication of global coverage of the vaccine, according to data published by the World Health Organization and the United Nations UNICEF Organization.

This represents an increase of one percentage point compared to 2023, equivalent to an additional million children, and these are “modest” gains in light of the major challenges that are still exist, according to the United Nations.

In 2024, the number of children around the world who did not have any doses reached 14.3 million children, which is a slight decrease compared to 14.5 million two years ago.

“The good news is that we were able to vaccinate a number of children with salvation vaccines,” Catherine Russell said in a joint statement with the World Health Organization.

In turn, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gyriprissus, warned, in the statement, that “radical deductions in aid, as well as misleading information on vaccine safety, threaten to blow up contracts of progress.”

The report also shows that access to vaccines is still witnessing a great disparity, and that armed conflicts strongly obstruct efforts to enhance the scope of vaccination, and the person in charge of the vaccination file in “UNICEF”, Evrem Le Mingo, said during a press conference: “The cuts in the budgets have weakened our ability to respond to the spread of diseases in 50 countries.”

The difficulty of accessing vaccines is the main cause of low vaccination rates around the world, but UN agencies also indicate the danger posed by misleading information on vaccines. The WHO vaccination official, Kate Operation, told reporters that the decline in confidence in the “vaccine integrity” may cause a lack of collective immunity, which may be dangerous and lead to the outbreak of epidemics.

Experts in particular warn of the situation in the United States, where health Minister Robert Kennedy Junior, known for his opposition to vaccination, began to conduct deep reforms in the American health authorities and vaccination policy, and was accused of publishing misleading information about measles vaccine at a time when the United States has been witnessing since the beginning of 2025, the worst outbreak of this disease in more than 30 years.

In 2024, 60 countries witnessed a “wide or disturbing” spread of the group, that is, nearly twice the number of countries affected in 2022, which reached 33 countries.