Prime Highlights
- World Immunization Week 2025, 24–30 April, observes the day “Immunization for All is Humanly Possible” with global focus on vaccines for health.
- Vaccines have saved over 154 million lives since 1974, as estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO), six lives every minute in the past half-century.
Key Facts
- 14.5 million children across the world were without their first dose of vaccine, 2 million among them “zero-dose” Indian children, in 2023.
- Vaccination has also averted a rise in infant survival by 40% during the past 50 years, and the measles vaccine alone has been calculated to have saved 94 million lives.
Key Background
World Immunization Week 2025, which will be promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO), will be educating people about the vaccine and coverage by nations in a non-violent manner. The campaign slogan, “Immunization for All is Humanly Possible,” is an indication of the potential to save all human beings from preventable diseases through additional work in the world.
Vaccines have caused the extinction of smallpox, and near-extinction of polio, as well as averts illnesses like measles, hepatitis B, and diphtheria. Hurdles of denial of vaccines, disinformation, and availability continue to persist, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. Immunization services interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic also denied a great many children routine immunizations.
WHO is emphasizing the promise of universal vaccination conferring immunity if political will, infrastructure, and acceptability of people are made available. The agency is urging catch-up campaigns to bridge pandemic-created gaps and asking governments to increase delivery networks to make access available to the vulnerable.
People in large numbers can also help by keeping themselves updated with the timing of the vaccine, distributing good vaccine information, and joining World Immunization Week campaigns. Society must make collective efforts in a way that immunization touches all corners of the globe and spreads good health and protects against epidemics as well.
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