Toward an Immunized World

Children immunized (with breakdowns)

Child immunization Per cent immunized

They are surrounded by immunized people.

However, only 30 per cent of children were exclusively breastfed, 79 per cent were immunized against tuberculosis, 68 per cent were immunized against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus and 67 per cent were immunized against measles in 2003 in the least developed countries.

Infants immunized against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles poliomyelitis and tuberculosis

Over 1 million children have been immunized against polio in Liberia.

You have to walk a few kilometers to get your kids immunized.

Well, when I started working there, about one percent of children were fully immunized.

The average per cent immunized against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 was 73.9 per cent, which is significantly lower than the 91.7 per cent immunized in the year 2001.

Target 4 Strategies to reach un immunized populations measles vaccination and vitamin A provision in emergencies

If we immunize 960 of them, it's as if we had immunized a hundred percent of them.

So we make it easy by organizing this monthly camp where people can get their kids immunized.

In total, UNICEF supported national and subnational immunization days in 45 countries, which immunized some 372 million children.

A total of 205,000 refugee children under the age of five were immunized, using regular vaccines donated by UNICEF.

1.123 160,000 children below two years of age will have been fully immunized for primary and booster series of vaccines.

When you're pre immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre trained to recognize and defeat specific foes.

Using vaccines donated by UNICEF, UNRWA immunized 211,800 refugee children under age five in the first round and 187,000 in the second.

The same child that is not immunized against measles, if they do get measles, parents will spend thousands of rupees to help them.

Ninety per cent of children under 5 were immunized against preventable diseases and infant mortality rates had fallen dramatically in the previous decade.

The coverage ratio for these activities was very high, 95 per cent of children under the age of five were immunized against polio.

UNICEF worked with Governments to develop coverage improvement plans in seven large population countries which represent 70 per cent of un immunized children worldwide.

The widest coverage was registered in Livno Canton with 89.8 per cent immunized, while the lowest was in Sarajevo Canton with 59.7 per cent.

The widest coverage immunized was in Una Sana Canton with 94.0 per cent, while the lowest was in Sarajevo Canton, with 61.9 per cent.

The challenge is now to build on this experience to reach non immunized children and women with routine services at least four times a year.

Well, some other scientists have estimated what would happen if you took a 30 percent random sample of these 1000 people, 300 people and immunized them.

Overall, 99.3 per cent of reported deliveries were attended by trained personnel and 98.8 per cent of pregnant women served by UNRWA were immunized against tetanus.

The effectiveness of the programme runs from 88 per cent of all children immunized against measles to a 100 per cent immunization against diphtheria and poliomyelitis.

UNICEF and its partners have also constructed and rehabilitated sanitation facilities for 550,000 people. Approximately 400,000 children were immunized against measles and provided with vitamin A supplements.

420. From 1982 to 1986, coverage increased, although the number of women fully immunized cannot be determined, since the number of doses was not recorded in 1986.

Efforts have been stepped up to immunize schoolchildren against German measles at the end of primary school and to systematically immunize all non immunized mothers immediately after childbirth.

Asked why over 29 million children had not been immunized, the secretariat said that this was mainly because of conflict, HIV AIDS, poverty and difficulties faced by some large African countries.

The outbreak affected mainly children aged 10 and above, including those previously immunized, suggesting a shift in the incidence of the disease from infancy and early childhood towards older age groups.

Despite tremendous efforts, more than 27 million children are still not fully immunized mainly those living in impoverished rural and urban communities with inadequate access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities.

Alarmed that globally and in some regions immunization coverage has increased only marginally since the early 1990s, and that in 2003 more than 27 million children worldwide were not immunized during their first year of life

The low percentage of immunized children was a consequence of the crises that followed the case of one child from Sarajevo who was infected with encephalitis after being administered a live vaccine of Australian origin distributed by UNICEF.

The average percentage of people immunized by oral polio vaccine in 2002 of all cantons in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was 81.8 per cent, which is considerably lower compared to the 92.3 per cent rate in 2001.

1.126 55,000 school entrants will have been thoroughly examined and immunized against vaccine preventable diseases and another 400,000 will have been screened for morbidity conditions with special emphasis on disabilities that are amenable to management such as vision and hearing defects.

This year, 21 million deaths 2 out of every 5 worldwide will be among the under 50s, including 10 million small children who will never see their fifth birthday, although most children worldwide are now immunized against major childhood killers.

But, with current estimates indicating that, by 2030, only half the world s children will be fully immunized with the 11 vaccines recommended globally by the World Health Organization, we clearly still have some way to go. For our part, we are helping to change that.

Ms. Laohaphan (Thailand) said that the international community was still failing the world's children, with six million dying every year from preventable diseases, 29 million remaining un immunized, increasing numbers living with HIV AIDS, millions deprived of primary education and millions suffering violence, and the worst forms of child labour.

In a more ethical world, to spend tens of millions of dollars on works of art would be status lowering, not status enhancing. Such behavior would lead people to ask In a world in which more than six million children die each year because they lack safe drinking water or mosquito nets, or because they have not been immunized against measles, couldn t you find something better to do with your money?

Ready access to locally produced food and higher incidence of breastfeeding provide at least some protection for rural children who, according to the survey, lag behind in so many other areas. The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey does reveal some positive, as well as negative, trends. Around half of all children surveyed had received at least one dose of vitamin A, and immunization coverage remains adequate, with at least 80 per cent of children aged one to two years immunized against measles.