World Immunization Week 2024
Reaching every child with lifesaving vaccines is #HumanlyPossible
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Vaccines are one of the most effective public health interventions that exist.
In the last 50 years alone, vaccines have saved 154 million lives. That’s 6 people every minute, for five decades.
As the journey to protect every child through immunization continues in Africa and around the world, UNICEF invites you to join us in taking action for a future without malaria, without polio, and without other vaccine-preventable diseases. It is #HumanlyPossible.
This World Immunization Week, help spread the word about how close we are to #EndPolio by watching and sharing the video below.
Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and much of their success is a result of the leadership, engagement and commitment of governments, the United Nations, scientists, healthcare workers, civil society and volunteers.
Meet some of the people who have made it their mission to ensure vaccines reach every child.
I joined the polio programme in order to help my community.
We go door-to-door looking for unvaccinated or insufficiently vaccinated children.
Learn about our impact on the ground
Our call-to-action to protect every child from vaccine-preventable diseases
In 2024, vaccines need urgent funding. It’s time for governments to re-commit to vaccines.
- We call on donor countries to financially invest in vaccines if we want to maintain the progress that has been made over the last 50 years and strive to bring vaccines to every child, every where.
- We call on governments to commit to catch their vaccination rates up to pre-pandemic levels and to reach zero-dose children (children who have never received any vaccine), and to develop plans for the introduction and scale-up of key new and existing vaccines.
Together we can ensure that no child dies of an illness we know how to prevent.
