According to a Gates Foundation report
Stephanie Rabemiafara/Art in All—Getty Images, children across the globe are going without shots already known to be life-saving.
That stark figure comes from the Gates Foundation’s annual Goalkeepers report, which evaluates global progress on the United Nations’, a set of global health, equity and sustainability benchmarks the group hopes to hit by 2030. But the significant decrease in childhood vaccinations is among the most dramatic of the report’s findings. International survey data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation shows that scores of children around the world missed vaccination appointments this spring, compared to last. Last year, 84% of the world’s children received all the vaccines recommended by the World Health Organization.
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