Vaccination in pregnancy to protect the newborn

What is the link between immunisation and child development? Know how vaccines keep kids healthy

Childhood is a crucial period for growth, learning, and development. During these early years, children are at a higher risk of suffering from infections because their immune systems are still developing. Undoubtedly, vaccination is one of the most effective ways to protect children from life-threatening diseases and improve their quality of life. By preventing illnesses that can delay or disrupt development, vaccines help children grow healthy.…

Vaccination in pregnancy to protect the newborn

Infectious diseases pose a particular risk to newborns and there is a global need to protect this vulnerable group. Because of the challenges of developing vaccines that are effective in newborns, only the hepatitis B and tuberculosis vaccines are given in the first 28 days of life, and even those vaccines are mainly only offered to high-risk groups. Maternal antibodies cross the placenta and can afford some protection to the newborn, so an alte…

Vaccines save lives. Yet in some sections of the population they do not reach the coverage desired by the World Health Organization. Rino Agostiniani, president of the Italian Society of Pediatrics, explains why it is important to raise awareness especially in adolescents and pregnant women

UN warns of rise in vaccine-preventable diseases

The WHO, UNICEF and Gavi said there has been a rise in diseases like measles, meningitis and yellow fever. Funding cuts, misinformation and humanitarian crises have worsened the problem.

While vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives in five decades, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, financial cuts, misinformation, the proliferation of humanitarian crises and population growth threaten these advances.

World Immunization Week: Protect every person from vaccine-preventable diseases

“Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements.  Over the last 50 years, essential vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives. That’s six lives a minute, every day, for five decades. “In these 50 years, vaccination accounts for 40 percent of the improvement in infant survival, and more children now live to see their first birthday and beyond than at any other time in human history. Measles vaccine alone accounts for 60 percent of thos…