全球180多个国家开展“世界免疫周”活动

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        4月23日，世界卫生组织发表声明说，全球共有180多个国家响应世界卫生组织号召于21日至28日举办“世界免疫周”活动，共同关注免疫接种对于对抗致命性疾病的重要性。

        本次“世界免疫周”的主题为“保护你的世界——接种疫苗”，旨在强调免疫接种对于挽救生命的重要性，并鼓励家庭为他们的孩子进行免疫接种以预防致命性疾病。活动期间，各国将举办为国家免疫项目引进新型疫苗，医务人员培训和讲座，决策者、医务人员、家长和护理人员参与的圆桌会议以及免疫接种活动。

        声明说，世卫组织希望通过这次活动与全球各国开展合作，提高人们对于疫苗和免疫接种的价值的认识，并确保各国政府在执行高质量免疫接种规划时获得必要的指导和技术支持。这是该活动首次在全球范围推广。

        世卫组织提供的数据显示，免疫接种使得全球每年减少200万至300万人死亡。无论是婴儿还是老年人，通过免疫接种均可预防致残性疾病、残疾和疫苗可预防疾病导致的死亡，如白喉、甲肝和乙肝、麻疹、腮腺炎、肺炎球菌病、脊髓灰质炎、轮状病毒腹泻、破伤风以及黄热病。此外，通过免疫接种还可预防在成年期发生的威胁生命的疾病，如流感、脑膜炎和癌症（如宫颈癌和肝癌）。

        越来越多的儿童获得免疫接种。据估计，2010年共有1.09亿名1岁以下儿童接种白喉—破伤风—百日咳三联疫苗；但与此同时，仍有约1930万名婴儿未接种预防白喉—破伤风—百日咳的基本疫苗。据估计，2008年约有170万名不满5周岁儿童死于疫苗可预防疾病。

        World Immunization Week rolls out in more than 180 countries

        Protect your world: Get vaccinated

        WHO / 23 April 2012

        For the first time, public health communities in all regions of the world are focussing at the same time on the importance of vaccination against deadly diseases. WHO’s World Immunization Week is being held from 21 to 28 April 2012 with activities in more than 180 countries.

        The theme of the week, &lsquorotect your world: Get vaccinated’, aims to reinforce the importance of immunization and encourage people everywhere to vaccinate themselves and their children against serious diseases. It is also a time to recall that, in this rapidly globalizing world, disease outbreaks can affect communities everywhere.

        Vaccines can transform lives

        “Vaccines have the power not only to save, but also to transform lives – giving children a chance to grow up healthy, go to school and improve their life prospects,” said Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and BioLogicals at WHO. “The benefits of immunization aren’t only for children. Vaccination offers protection to adolescents and adults against life-threatening diseases such as influenza, meningitis, and cervical cancer,” he added.

        Preventing millions of deaths

        Immunization is estimated to prevent between two and three million deaths each year from diseases like diphtheria, measles, mumps, tetanus, rubella and whooping cough. Vaccines are considered one of public health’s ‘best buys’. It is also a significant contributor to the Millennium Development Goals, particularly MDG 4 – a two-thirds reduction in child mortality by 2015 (compared to 1990).

        “Ironically, the fact that immunization has made many infectious diseases rare or almost unheard of has led some people to believe that they don't need to get vaccinated. But gaps in vaccination coverage put everyone at risk of disease outbreaks,” said Dr Okwo-Bele.

        First global year of immunization

        For some regions, these weeks have been an annual trADItion to showcase the power of immunization in protecting public health; but this is the first year this recognition is global.

        Activities

        Activities planned during the week range from the introduction of newly available vaccines into national immunization programmes to training and workshops for healthcare workers, roundtable discussions with political decision-makers, medical professionals, parents and care givers, as well as vaccination campaigns.

        In WHO’s African Region there will be a special focus on polio eradication. In addition, other events will include the simultaneous launch of two new vaccines – pneumococcal conjugate and rotavirus, to protect children from pneumonia, meningitis and diarrhoea – in Ghana.

        In the Region of the Americas it is the 10th Vaccination Week, with events being held from Port au Prince, Haiti, to the border between Barbados, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

        All 23 countries and territories in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region are participating in the 2012 Vaccination Week, with the main regional event focussing on “reaching every community”.

        In the European Region there is a special focus on reaching vulnerable groups with immunization, and the need to control on-going measles outbreaks.

        The South-East Asia Region has declared 2012 as the Year of Intensification of Routine Immunization.

        The Western Pacific Region will release the third in a series of cartoon videos about the adventures of Vacciboy and Immugirl to bring wider attention to the issue.

        Situation improving but gaps remain

        Vaccination coverage is improving globally. In three of WHO’s six regions, the Americas, Europe and the Western Pacific, immunization coverage is more than 90%. In 2010, an estimated 109 million infants were vaccinated with three doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine. But significant gaps remain. That same year, about 19.3 million infants did not receive this basic vaccine and nearly 70% of these children live in 10 countries: Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda.

        The Decade of Vaccines, a collaboration of leading partners in the global public health community, aims to ensure the universal right of all people to the full benefits of immunization, regardless of where they are born, who they are or where they live. The global vaccine action plan will be presented to the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly in May 2012.