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Globally, international donors and UN agencies worked closely with national governments, tallying the exact needs for massive polio immunization campaigns aimed at reaching hundreds of millions of children.
In each country, partner institutions including the minister of health, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, other UN agencies, service groups like Rotary International, representatives from donor governments, the private sector and non-governmental organizations, jointly and carefully planned each immunization campaign.
Once it is, we may eventually be able to stop immunization against the disease, and save up to US$1.5 billion every year in averted immunization and treatment costs.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, spearheaded by the WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF, urgently requires US$275 million to fill a funding gap for immunization activities.
Without these funds, polio immunization activities will have to be postponed, cancelled or seriously cut back in several countries.
To be sure, nutrition, immunization, and contraception are covered in the SDGs.
And the summit in Abu Dhabi has provided a clear plan to get there by 2018 – a strategy that complements other efforts to raise immunization coverage for diseases such as measles, pneumonia, and rotavirus.
Strengthening routine immunization will protect our gains against polio and enable us to reach the most vulnerable children in the hardest-to-reach and most underserved communities.
As fear of Ebola mounted, many citizens stopped using health services, reflected in a 23% drop in births in hospitals or clinics, a 21% drop in children receiving basic immunization, and a 39% drop in children treated for malaria.
The children that had previously not been reached with polio vaccines live in communities with little or no access to routine immunization, maternal healthcare, nutritional supplements, deworming, or malaria prevention.
The infrastructure has helped introduce new vaccines – such as pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, which protect against pneumonia, the biggest killer of children under the age of five – and increased coverage of routine immunization against measles and rubella.
The infrastructure put in place to deliver polio vaccines there is now being used to increase coverage of routine immunization, like the 5-in-1 pentavalent vaccine.
To eradicate the disease, however, we will have to build on successes like Nigeria’s and strengthen routine immunization efforts.
Surge funding has been used often to finance immunization campaigns.
The International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm), which borrows against future government contributions to immunization programs, has raised billions of dollars over the past several years to ensure that vaccination campaigns are successful as soon as possible.
Yet half of the world’s children live in areas where the pneumococcal vaccine is not available through a national immunization program, and only 15% of the children in the world’s poorest countries have access to the rotavirus vaccine.
By making vaccines available through national immunization programs, governments can protect all children from the diseases that are most likely to harm or kill them.
While two-thirds of its people still survive on less than $1.25 per day, poverty and child mortality have fallen, while rates of immunization and school enrollment are rising.
One of the most exciting – and often overlooked – developments in the global push to give all children access to immunization is the growing role of emerging-country vaccine suppliers.
G-8 countries’ generous contributions to organizations like mine show that they understand the importance of childhood immunization.
They provide information about reproductive health, which can help stop the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, and about hygiene and healthy lifestyles; and they are often the ones who administer and monitor the vaccination and immunization of expectant mothers, newborns, and infants.
Africa’s Vaccination TestBOSTON – In February in Addis Ababa, African health ministers signed a widely celebrated declaration of their commitment to keeping immunization at the forefront of efforts to save the continent’s children from death and disease.
Globally, an estimated 2-3 million child deaths and 600,000 adult deaths are prevented annually through immunization.
Moreover, immunization is considered one of the most cost-effective public-health interventions for reducing child morbidity, mortality, and disability.
Accounting for the value individuals place on longer and healthier lives, net returns on investments in immunization soar to some 44 times the cost.
Yet, worldwide, an estimated 18.7 million infants are not being reached by routine immunization services.
Detailed analysis of immunization reveals significant disparities within and across countries.
Routine immunization coverage remains particularly low in Africa; indeed, it has stagnated over the last three years, against a backdrop of weak and under-resourced health systems.
Clearly, money is a leading factor shaping immunization outcomes.
That same study found that, in many low- and middle-income countries, immunization budgets are currently insufficient to sustain vaccination programs, much less incorporate the new costlier vaccines.
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