One in 10 children miss out on essential vaccines, warns WHO

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GENEVA - The UN health agency has joined forces with the European Union to tackle the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases - and confront the spread of misinformation about inoculations.

Speaking at the first Global Vaccination Summit in Brussels on Thursday, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that one in 10 children fails to get the essential jabs they need.

Together with EU President Jean-Claude Juncker, Tedros called for governments and partners to invest in immunization “as a right for all”.

The initiative comes amid a resurgence of preventable diseases, notably measles, which has seen infection rates surge above levels not seen since 2006. The agency has declared people’s hesitancy about vaccines, one of the 10 key threats to global health.


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