In France, 82,000 children have not yet received all vaccines

Worldwide, 67 million children have not received one or more life-saving vaccines against childhood diseasesaccording to UNICEF.

It’s a staggering number. Between 2019 and 2021, 67 million children worldwide did not receive all of their life-saving vaccines, according to a recent UNICEF report released Wednesday, April 19.

In France, this figure would rise to 82 thousand children, of which 21 thousand who would not have received any vaccines. ” Babies born just before or during the pandemic will soon exceed the age at which vaccines are usually administered, making it all the more urgent to catch up to prevent epidemic outbreaks of deadly diseases. UNICEF wrote in a press release. The organization estimates that confidence in vaccines against polio or measles has dropped by 11.5%.

Children from the African and Asian continents are the most affected

Thus, globally, vaccination coverage among children has dropped to 81%, losing 5 points globally, and 48 million children would not have received any doses. Among these, the most affected are those of the African continent and South Asia.

This global decline in childhood vaccination can be explained by several reasons according to Unicef. Starting with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused “ overload health systems and reallocate scarce resources “, writes the organization, but also, like France, a ” loss of confidence in vaccination reported in 52 of 55 countries surveyed for childhood diseases.