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Given the progress made in expanding vaccination programs in recent years, this revelation represents a unique opportunity for the global community, particularly as we begin to close the lid on polio.
But their analysis found something else: during the same period, vaccination will also prevent 24 million people from falling into poverty because of the cost of medical treatment.
All of this highlights the important role vaccination has to play in helping to reduce poverty.
The fact that the study found that the greatest benefits of vaccination were among the poorest suggests not only that poorer people are more vulnerable and have a higher risk of developing preventable diseases, but also that the impact on their lives is potentially greater.
For the governments of low-income countries, this is an opportunity, because it shows what they could achieve in terms of improving health equity and reducing poverty by targeting higher vaccination rates in poorer and more marginalized communities.
Thanks to global health organizations like the WHO, UNICEF and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, vaccination is already one of the most widely available health interventions ever.
Governments must fund mosquito-control and prevention programs, from the use of insecticides to the distribution of mosquito nets, as well as public-education campaigns and vaccination initiatives.
This is clearly a longer-term response to the epidemic: research by Dean Jamison and Robert Hecht for RethinkHIV suggests that we are about 20 years away from large-scale vaccination, and that increasing current funding by around 10%, or $100 million a year, would meaningfully shorten that projection.
For example, the effort to eradicate polio worldwide has been disrupted in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria, where rule by Islamist militants has led to increased resistance against vaccination campaigns.
In Greece, despite the fact that child vaccination has been mandatory since 1999 (unless a child has a certified medical condition), Xanthos has advocated an opt-out option for parents who do not want to vaccinate their children.
Herd immunity describes a level of vaccination coverage that is high enough to prevent a disease from spreading through the population.
In addition, vaccination is a crucial instrument in the fight against one of the twenty-first century’s biggest health challenges: antimicrobial resistance.
More generally, it is widely known that high vaccination coverage results in a healthier population, and that healthier people can contribute more, both economically and socially, to their communities.
Rather, the biggest hurdle has been popular resistance to vaccination.
Moreover, six countries in the region were declared polio-free in 2014, following extensive vaccination campaigns.
We have the tools to address these shortcomings and ensure that no child dies unnecessarily from an illness that vaccination could have prevented.
We are at a pivotal moment in the global vaccination drive.
Unfortunately, the value that vaccination can provide in this area has yet to be properly recognized.
Universal vaccination would save millions of lives and prevent 11.4 million days of antibiotic use per year in children younger than five.
Perhaps the biggest contribution that the Gates Foundation made to that decline was pledging $750 million to establish the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (now known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance), a public-private initiative that works with governments and United Nations agencies to improve the rate of vaccination in poor countries and foster the development of new vaccines.
This will allow us to record causes of death more accurately and track progress as vaccination campaigns and other measures are introduced.
It is noteworthy that China’s chaotic effort to vaccinate 14 billion chickens has been compromised by counterfeit vaccines and the absence of protective gear for vaccination teams, which might actually spread disease by carrying fecal material on their shoes from one farm to another.
Moreover, there is hope that an effective vaccination can be developed.
Initiatives like free universal pre-kindergarten, higher taxes on health-damaging substances, and broader vaccination coverage would probably do much more than precision medicine to enhance public health over the coming decades.
Universal vaccination for the pneumococcal vaccine alone would lead to an estimated annual reduction of 11.4 million days of antibiotics for children under five.
Vaccination rates in many parts of the United States have fallen well below 90% for polio, meaning that the risk of an outbreak is very high should a case be introduced.
The barriers to polio eradication are no longer medical; the disease does not occur where vaccination programs operate unhindered.
In Nigeria and Pakistan, vaccination programs were able to proceed after troops asserted the state’s control over conflict-affected territory.
Most polio cases occurred in northern and eastern Nigeria, where the terrorist group Boko Haram had killed and kidnapped immunization workers, disrupting vaccination programs and leaving more than a million children unprotected.
The Afghan Taliban have cooperated with polio vaccination programs since the 1990s.
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