As for measles, global coverage improved significantly between 2004 and 2016 but has since slowed. In 2024, the global measles vaccination rate reached 76 percent, up from 71 percent in 2019, yet ...

Rising global conflicts have impeded vaccination drives for diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, leaving more children without critical immunisations, according to the United ...

More than 14 million children around the world have not received a single dose of any vaccine, according to new data from the World Health Organization and UNICEF.

Another 5.7 million children only have partial protection against preventable diseases, having not received all the recommended doses of certain vaccines.

More than four years after the pandemic began, childhood vaccination rates worldwide have yet to recover, a new report shows.

The 74 reports childhood vaccination rates have dropped in 1,600 US counties since the pandemic, risking herd immunity amid ...

Although the Covid-19 pandemic saw unprecedented speed in the development and distribution of coronavirus vaccines, experts say it was also marked by a significant and concerning drop in the rate ...

The biggest fall in vaccination coverage globally was in Sudan, which has been decimated by 15 months of civil war. It saw coverage rates fall to 57% in 2023 from 75% in 2022.

NEW YORK — More children were left out of critical vaccination drives for diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough in 2023 as a rise in conflicts across the globe hindered the ...

(Reuters) – More children were left out of critical vaccination drives for diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough last year as a rise in conflicts across the globe hindered the ...

About 14.5 million children failed to get vaccinated in 2023, compared with 13.9 million a year earlier, according to UN estimates More children were left out of critical vaccination drives for ...

More children were left out of critical vaccination drives for diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough last year as a rise in conflicts across the globe hindered the supply of life ...