16/07/21

儿童疫苗接种率下降至十年,低于大流行

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巴基斯坦的一个学童接受小儿麻痹症疫苗。联合国机构的官方数据表明,COVID-19的大流行在全球范围内否认了2300万儿童的基本疫苗。版权:赛诺菲巴斯德,,,,(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)。该图像已裁剪。

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  • Number of missed vaccinations reaches high not seen since 2009
  • Raises spectre of resurgence of measles, polio, meningitis
  • 东亚洲,东地中海受影响最大

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新冠肺炎pandemic has denied 23 million孩子们全球基本疫苗的疫苗,增加了可预防疫苗的风险疾病例如麻疹,脊髓灰质炎和脑膜炎,官方datafrom United Nations bodies show.

去年,另外370万儿童错过了他们的疫苗,而一年前。data来自2020年在诊所和社区中心收集的160个国家,并向世界卫生组织和联合国儿童基金会报告,标志着自2009年以来错过的疫苗数量最多。

麻疹是一种高度传染性疾病,可能对五岁以下的儿童致命,according给谁,而小儿麻痹症可能会使孩子终生瘫痪。

广泛的错误信息,funding谁和联合国儿童基金会说,差距和不稳定在很大程度上造成了公共卫生危机,警告了东南亚和地中海东部地区的令人不安的情况,那里的疫苗接种率正在进一步下降。

“多次疾病暴发将对已经与Covid-19作斗争的社区和卫生系统灾难性,这使得比以往任何时候都更加紧迫,以便投资于儿童期疫苗接种并确保每一个孩子都能到达。”

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General

As countries clamour for access to COVID-19 vaccines, urgent investment in routine childhood vaccination is needed, according to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General.

他在7月15日发布的一份声明中说:“多次疾病暴发将对已经与Covid-19作斗争的社区和卫生系统灾难性,这使得比以往任何时候都更加紧迫,要投资于儿童期疫苗接种并确保每一个孩子都能达到。”

该数据与一项新的建模研究一起发布,该研究表明疫苗针对麻疹,白喉,破伤风和贫困国家的百日咳疫苗的覆盖率显着下降。

study,,,,published in这柳叶刀,,,,shows that vaccination coverage dropped mainly in March and April last year in almost every affected region of the world, with a more severe annual impact in North Africa and the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

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根据调查结果,符合条件的儿童错过了针对白喉的第三剂剂量中的360万剂,以及220万首剂量的首次剂量针对南亚的麻疹,使其成为2020年最严重受影响的地区。

然而,作者说,撒哈拉以南非洲的干扰最低,许多国家依靠定期进行大规模疫苗接种运动,以反对麻疹暴发。

据卫生指标研究所助理教授乔纳森·莫塞尔(Jonathan Mosser)称,大流行强调了开发数据系统的重要性,这些数据系统在为所有人提供公平的免疫接收方面既及时又高质量,并允许对免疫工作进行实时跟踪。评估at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, who was an author on柳叶刀报告。

“This has been particularly important during the pandemic as situations have shifted rapidly, but will remain important even after the pandemic is over,’’ he toldscidev.net

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Winluck Shayo, the chief executive officer of AfyaTrack, a health tech organization that tracks maternal and child health among Swahili-speaking communities in Africa, says the COVID-19 pandemic should serve as a lesson for政府across the world on how to sustain essential health services – such as childhood immunization – during the pandemic.

他说:“政府应适应新的指南,清楚地说明如何在大流行期间继续提供儿童健康服务和诊所。”

他告诉他说:“还应努力旨在教育公众关于常规疫苗对孩子的重要性,因为他们对时间很敏感。”scidev.net

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