“These data are encouraging,” said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement.
Uneven recovery
Despite these “promising signs,” coverage still does not reach pre-pandemic levels (18.4 million), which, according to UN agencies, exposes children to serious risks of epidemics. And “the recovery is very uneven,” noted Kate O’Brien.
Wealthy countries are doing relatively well and WHO has also found that “some countries – especially some very large low- to middle-income countries, like India and Indonesia,” have seen a strong recovery, she said.
She explained that countries seeing a recovery in their vaccine coverage are generally those that invested regularly in these programs before the pandemic, also citing Nepal, Kenya, and Bangladesh.
On the other hand, “in low-income countries as a whole, the recovery is just beginning, if it exists at all in some of these countries,” said Kate O’Brien.
Vaccine coverage against HPV exceeds pre-pandemic levels
Overall, a major concern remains vaccination against measles – one of the most infectious pathogens – which has not recovered as well as other vaccines. Coverage for the first dose of the measles vaccine rose to 83% in 2022, compared to 81% in 2021, but remains lower than the 86% achieved in 2019.
On the other hand, vaccine coverage against the human papillomavirus (HPV) exceeded pre-pandemic levels last year for the first time.
The UN launched a “catch-up” campaign for children’s vaccinations nearly three months ago, focused on twenty countries where three-quarters of the world’s children who missed vaccines in 2021 live.
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