By vaccinating today, you’re bringing the world closer tomorrow. Vaccines bring us closer to a world where we can travel ✈️, protected together from the threat of preventable diseases.
With new vaccine research, we’re identifying innovative ways to defeat current and future disease threats. #VaccinesWork to bring us closer.
#VaccinesWork to prevent diseases like:
Cervical cancer
Cholera
Diphtheria
Ebola
Hep B
Influenza
Japanese encephalitis
Measles
Meningitis
Mumps
Whooping cough
Pneumonia
Polio
Rabies
Rotavirus
Rubella
Tetanus
Typhoid
Varicella
Yellow Fever
Vaccines are helping eliminate diseases in our communities, making them vital to a closer world. #VaccinesWork to bring us closer.
Thanks to vaccines, global #polio infections have been reduced to only a few hundred cases each year. We now have a chance of making this disease, and the threat of other deadly diseases, history. #VaccinesWork to bring us closer.
The systems created to deliver #polio vaccines to the hardest-to-reach areas of the world are also helping polio workers find #COVID19 cases, trace contacts and practice safety measures to slow the spread of the virus.
The pandemic interrupted lifesaving vaccination campaigns. Now that #polio vaccination has resumed, the #polio programme is committed to overcoming setbacks, protecting communities from #COVID19, and ending polio for all.
"Globally, the #COVID19 pandemic continues to intensify. Cases have now increased for the 9th straight week, & deaths have increased for the 6th straight week. To put it in perspective, there were almost as many cases 🌍 last week as in the 1st 5 months of the pandemic"-@DrTedros
"It’s pleasing to see small declines in cases and deaths in several regions, but many countries are still experiencing intense #COVID19 transmission, and the situation in #India is beyond heartbreaking"-@DrTedros#InThisTogether
According to WHO data, 6⃣0⃣ mass immunization campaigns are currently postponed in 5⃣0⃣ countries, putting around 2⃣2⃣8⃣ million people - mostly children - at risk for diseases such as #measles, #YellowFever and #polio.
To support the recovery from #COVID19 and to fight future pandemics, we must ensure access to lifesaving vaccines and routine vaccination services are protected in every country in the 🌎🌏🌍.
Over the last 2 decades 11 countries have been certified #Malaria free:
🇩🇿 Algeria
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
#Malaria still kills 1⃣ child every 2⃣ minutes.
No children should die because they cannot access life-saving services to prevent, detect & treat the disease.
Reaching 0⃣ malaria is possible – Together we can #EndMalaria
In 2019, there were an est. 229 million cases of #malaria & 400 000 malaria-related deaths in 87 countries. Children under 5 years continued to account for approximately 2/3 of deaths from malaria 🌐
The @ACTAccelerator, an unprecedented global alliance to develop & deliver the tests, treatments & vaccines the 🌐 needs to fight #COVID19, marks its first anniversary today with a special report on its progress & aims for 2021:
👉bit.ly/3sFJjLL
The @ACTAccelerator's vaccines pillar, #COVAX has successfully:
✅ Secured access to over 2 billion #COVID19 vaccine doses
✅ Shipped more than 40 million doses to 119 economies
To help all countries detect #COVID19, the @ACTAccelerator's diagnostics pillar has:
✅ Supported the development & use of antigen rapid diagnostic tests
✅ Procured 65+ million tests for lower income countries