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A record 123 million children were immunized globally in 2017 but millions of children are still not reached by potentially life-saving vaccines.
Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions to date, averting an estimated two to three million deaths every year. As a direct result of immunisation, the world is closer than ever to eradicating polio, with only three remaining polio endemic countries – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. Children under five deaths from measles, a major child killer, declined by 85 per cent worldwide and by 89 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2016. And as of March 2018, all but 14 countries have eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus, a disease with a fatality rate of 70 to 100 per cent among newborns. The percentage of children receiving the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine (DTP) is often used as an indicator of how well countries are providing routine immunisation services. In 2017, global coverage...
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