{"id":84727,"date":"2019-04-26T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T10:30:30","slug":"who-says-one-in-10-children-did-not-get-vaccinated-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-says-one-in-10-children-did-not-get-vaccinated-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO says one in 10 children did not get vaccinated in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to the most recent WHO and UNICEF\nimmunization estimates, globally, 12.9 million infants, nearly 1 in 10, did not\nreceive any vaccinations in 2016.<\/li><li>WHO has said that the estimates highlight that infants\nhave missed the first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine. Diphtheria,\ntetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough)\nare three bacterial diseases that can be vaccinated against with a single shot.<\/li><li>The WHO has observed that the percentage of\nchildren who received their full course of routine immunizations of DTP has\nstalled at 86%. This falls short of the global immunization coverage target of\n90% set under Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP). GVAP is a framework to prevent\nmillions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines\nfor people in all communities.<\/li><li>WHO has noted that all of the targets elimination\nof vaccine preventable diseases such as measles, rubella, and maternal and\nneonatal tetanus are behind schedule. The data points out that 85% of children\nhave been vaccinated with the first dose of measles vaccine and 64% with second\ndose.<\/li><li>WHO has repeatedly highlighted the importance of\nimmunisation- it helps prevent illness, disability and death from\nvaccine-preventable diseases including cervical cancer, diphtheria, hepatitis\nB, measles, mumps, pneumonia, pertussis, polio, rotavirus diarrhoea, rubella\nand tetanus.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the most recent WHO and UNICEF immunization estimates, globally, 12.9 million infants, nearly 1 in 10, did not receive any vaccinations in 2016. WHO has said that the estimates highlight that infants have missed the first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine. Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough) are three bacterial diseases that can&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-says-one-in-10-children-did-not-get-vaccinated-in-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO says one in 10 children did not get vaccinated in 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1802,918],"class_list":["post-84727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-immunization","tag-who-report","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704888006},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84727","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}