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Vaccines for Children: Supply at Risk

Author: UNICEF
Price: Available as a PDF only
No. of pages: 4
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: UNICEF
Languages:
English French Spanish

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The world is experiencing vaccine shortages serious enough to jeopardize immunization programmes for children. This situation is especially grave for the world's poorest countries and poses a threat to the lives and well-being of children and families.

UNICEF, which meets around 40 per cent of the global demand for children's vaccines and is the key supplier of vaccines to the world's poorest countries, is seeking urgent global responses to prevent what could become a crisis.