Increased misinformation and the disruption of global supply chains due to COVID-19 are behind the biggest sustained drop in childhood vaccinations in three decades, a UN report said.
The percentage of children who received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis fell five percentage points between 2019 and 2021 to 81 percent, according to official data published Thursday by WHO and UNICEF.Catherine Russell, UNICEF executive director,"We are witnessing the largest sustained drop in childhood immunization in a generation.
Around the world, a quarter of the coverage of human papillomavirus vaccines achieved in 2019 has been lost, a blow in the fight against cervical cancers. Observers had hoped 2021 would be a year of recovery after the lockdowns of 2020 – but instead it was the worst year for DTP coverage since 2008 and came against a backdrop of rising rates of severe acute malnutrition.
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