{"id":239851,"date":"2023-04-27T19:36:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=239851"},"modified":"2023-05-02T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T11:59:10","slug":"who-launches-the-big-catch-up-to-restore-immunization-progress-lost-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-launches-the-big-catch-up-to-restore-immunization-progress-lost-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO launches \u2018The Big Catch-Up\u2019 to restore immunization progress lost during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the artic<\/span>le<b> \u201c<\/b><b>WHO launches \u2018The Big Catch-Up\u2019 to restore immunization progress lost during pandemic<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Down To Earth <\/b>on <b>27th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several public health organizations have come together to launch The <\/span><b>Big Catch-up Initiative.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Big Catch-up Initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Launched by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Health Organization, UNICEF, Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, along with Immunization Agenda 2030 and a host of other public health organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Target countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The initiative will pay special attention to the 20 countries which are home to a majority of the children who have missed their vaccine doses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 India is among these 20 countries where around 75% of children have missed essential immunization against preventable but critical diseases in 2021, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The disruption has already led to outbreaks of such diseases, including measles, diphtheria, polio and yellow fever becoming more prevalent and severe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Major activities under the initiative<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthen healthcare workforces, improve health service delivery, build demand for vaccines, and address obstacles to restoring immunization.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWHO launches \u2018The Big Catch-Up\u2019 to restore immunization progress lost during pandemic\u201d published in Down To Earth on 27th April 2023 What is the News? Several public health organizations have come together to launch The Big Catch-up Initiative. What is the Big Catch-up Initiative? Launched by: World&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-launches-the-big-catch-up-to-restore-immunization-progress-lost-during-pandemic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO launches \u2018The Big Catch-Up\u2019 to restore immunization progress lost during pandemic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[11551,10504,10514],"class_list":["post-239851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-big-catchup-initiative","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702991089},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}