Routine Childhood Vaccines Saved 154 Million Lives in the Past 50 Years – The Lancet Group
The Lancet Group shared a post on LinkedIn:
“In the past 50 years, routine childhood vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives.
Despite this significant health achievement, childhood vaccination coverage has stalled in recent decades, leaving millions of children at risk for vaccine-preventable diseases.
Between 1980 and 2023, vaccine coverage doubled for diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), measles, polio, and tuberculosis.
There was also a 75% global decline in the number of children who had never received a routine childhood vaccine.
However, since 2010, progress has stalled or reversed in many countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to this, making access and uptake more challenging. Today, vaccine coverage varies widely across regions.
To reach global immunisation targets and protect more children, the following strategies are essential:
- Targeted and equitable immunisation approaches
- Strengthening primary healthcare systems
- Building resilience against vaccine misinformation
- Understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy
For regional and country-specific data, read the GBDStudy.”
Title: Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Authors: Andrew J Shattock, Helen C Johnson, So Yoon Sim, Austin Carter, Philipp Lambach, Raymond C W Hutubessy, Kimberly M Thompson, Kamran Badizadegan, Brian Lambert, Matthew J Ferrari, Mark Jit, Han Fu, Sheetal P Silal, Rachel A Hounsell, Richard G White, Jonathan F Mosser, Katy A M Gaythorpe, Caroline L Trotter, Ann Lindstrand, Katherine L O’Brien, Naor Bar-Zeev
You can read the Full Article on The Lancet Journal
“Figure 1 below: Global and super-regional estimates of vaccine coverage over time. Mean global (A) and super-regional (B) coverage estimates for the target age population by year for each vaccine, with 95% uncertainty intervals. The dashed horizontal line indicates the coverage required to meet the IA2030 goal of 90% coverage for life-course vaccines.
Find out more in the paper.The global progress in vaccinating children against life-threatening diseases began with the World Health Organization’s establishment of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974. ”
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