Today marks the start of World Immunization Week (April 24-30), which is celebrated every year in the last week of April.

This week aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages from diseases.

“During World Immunization Week, let’s show the world that some family traditions are worth passing on,” calls the World Health Organization. Under the theme ‘For every generation, vaccines work’, World Immunization Week will promote how vaccines have safely protected people, families and communities for generations, and continue to protect our future.

Through its organizing power, WHO works with countries around the globe to raise awareness of the value of vaccines and immunization and ensures that governments receive the guidance and technical support needed to implement quality immunization programmes. high.

Vaccines have long been one of the most powerful tools in public health. The WHO says that, over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives, not by chance, but because people made the decision to protect themselves, their children and their communities from diseases such as measles, diphtheria, polio and rotavirus.

Today, newer vaccines against malaria, HPV, cholera, dengue, meningitis, RSV, Ebola and monkeypox are saving even more lives and helping people at every stage of life live longer and healthier thanks to scientific advances.

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Source: prizrenpost