According to new data released by the United Nations Children Fund and the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2021, South Asia has yet recorded the highest coverage on child vaccination.
Three of the diphtheria, tatanas and DATP (DTP) vaccines are given three fears in the entire region. This is a symptom of rhythm from the challenges caused by the Covid -19 epidemic and proof of how serious and committed to children’s health rights.
UNICEF’s South Asian regional director Sanjay Bijsekes praised the achievement, saying, “Today more children are safer than ever, and our forward -line -faced health workers, strong government leadership and cooperation of donors and partners are credited.”
However, he said that we cannot forget that there are still millions of children who have not partial or at all. We need to intensify our efforts – especially for children in rural and remote areas.
New records, new expectations in 2024
In 2024, Historical Tihasic progress in the vaccine of children in South Asia. All three of the 12% of the children in the DTP vaccine were scared, which was 2% higher than 2021.
The number of children who got the first evening also increased by 95%.
The biggest achievement was “Zero-Dose”, that is, without getting a vaccine, the number of children has decreased by 2 27%, which came down to 2 million to 1 lakh.
In India, this number has decreased by 43% and Nepal 52%.
Pakistan has earned the highest DTP 3 coverage so far, which has been 87%.
At the same time, Afghanistan is still behind in South Asia, where the coverage is reduced by 1%.
These statistics show that South Asia has achieved unprecedented leadership towards the health of children.
Big success against Khasra
South Asia has made significant progress towards the end of Khusra. In 2021, the number of children who got the first evening of Khasra increased by 93%, while the second suspicion coverage reached 88%.
It has a direct impact and the cases of Khushra have decreased by 39%. In 2021, more than 3,000 cases of Khasra were reported, when the number came down to about 5 in 2021.
Although this is a big success, 95% coverage is still needed to completely stop the outbreak of khas. Thus, it is important to continue the campaign.
Challenges left
Despite the recent progress, there are still more than 2 million children in South Asia who are either completely deprived of vaccination or have found incomplete damage to vaccines.
To reach these children, UNICEF and who have applied to intensify their efforts to all the governments in the South Asia region.
For this, maintaining political commitments and increasing the availability of money in countries, providing HPV vaccine to each teenager, inclusion of zero-doz children, increasing investment of community health workers, collecting coverage of cashews and strengthening the observation of the disease.
Even now every child has left for it – and that’s the next goal.
Forward
Who southeast Asia Doctor Fatigi Fatigi applied for “to maintain this momentum and to make their efforts to save the life of each child”.
The success of South Asia in 2021 is a evidence that if coordination, continuous effort and community’s faith is together, extraordinary results can be achieved.
