Is
your child suffering from prolonged fever? Cross check whether you are up to
date or not? Check if you have missed the vaccination date of your little one.
Yes, vaccination has an imperative role in your children’s lives as well as for
all of us. The main motive of vaccination is to prevent diseases among all ages
to get a cost-effective as well as a successful healthcare intervention.
Immunization helps in producing antibody through the generation of memory cells
to protect ourselves from the exposure of the causative agents of a particular
disease.
Importance
of immunization
In
many places across the world, people do not have access for vaccination. Still,
many children are left with their low immune power and are fighting with
life-threatening diseases. As people do not have much knowledge for being in
the remote area, they do not have done vaccination for themselves as well for
their children too. So, it is really important to let people know about the
importance of vaccination that helps everyone to have a safe and disease free
life.
Immunization
week is celebrated every year in the month of April. Unlike other years, the
very last week of April of this year is going to celebrate World Immunization
Week. This week is also known as European Immunization Week. Like other years,
in 2019 there is a theme that has been selected by the World Health
Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The theme of
this year is ‘PROTECTED TOGETHER’. In association with the European Centre of
Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), different national and the regional
partners like WHO and UNICEF celebrate this world immunization week.
Main
Objectives
The
main aim of celebrating this week all over the world is to protect all the
children from vaccine-prevented disease like mumps, rubella,
viral infection, measles, diphtheria, pox and many more. WHO and its
co-partners have fixed a set of objectives to prevent diseases and to establish
the value of vaccination among different communities and children from all over
the world. Along with the increase in the population, the need for immunization
has also increased parallelly which must be addressed through universal health
coverage and by a resilient healthcare management system. In the year 2017, the
immunization week was celebrated where 116.2 million children got immunized against
different diseases. Since the year 2010 the number of the population has
increased and in the very recent year 2019. As per the data produced by WHO and
UNICEF, in the year 2010, 113 additional countries introduced a vaccine where
more than 20million children were being immunized.
Creating
awareness among people to have a healthy life vaccination is important. If you
still have not done vaccination for your child, come forward, contact with your
local healthcare providers and let celebrate the World Immunization Week
together from 24th to 30th April and let’s say loudly ‘WE ARE PROTECTED’.
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