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GLOBAL EDuCaTiON
Story & Photos
UNICEF

12 Things You

Didn’t Know

ABOUT IMMUNIZATION AROUND THE GLOBE

immunization coverage miss out on their
compromises gains in all right to benefi t
other areas of health for from immunization,
mothers and children. The poorest, which could mean
most vulnerable children who need the difference
immunization the most continue to between life and
be the least likely to get it. death.
UNICEF and its partners are Despite these
working to ensure that the lives of challenges,
ACCINES keep children all children are protected. But, if vaccines are
alive and healthy by vaccination is not prioritized, some of protecting more
protecting them against the most marginalized children will children than ever
Vdisease. Yet in 2016, an
estimated 1.4 million children
under fi ve years of age died
from vaccine-preventable
diseases. Approximately one-
fourth of deaths among children
under fi ve years old were from
pneumonia, diarrhoea and
measles, and could have been
mostly prevented by vaccines.
A health worker
vaccinates
Globally one in seven children 5-year-old
- over 19 million - missed out on Yousef in Hulluk
neighbourhood
routine vaccines, including 13 million in Aleppo city,
who have never been vaccinated, Syria as part of
putting them and their communities the nationwide
immunization
at risk of disease and death. Low campaign.

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