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World’s Children 2023 report
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- The UNICEF India released a report "The State of the World's Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination."
- This report highlights India as one of the countries with the highest vaccine confidence in the world.
- In Odisha, 90.5 percent of children fully immunized and it is higher than the national average of 76.4 percent.
- The importance of vaccines for children held firm or improved only in China, India and Mexico out of 55 countries studied.
- The vaccine confidence marks a decline in over a third of the studied countries, e.g., in the Republic of Korea, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Senegal and Japan after the start of the pandemic.
- A total of 67 million children missed out on vaccinations between 2019 and 2021.
- Vaccination coverage levels decreasing in 112 countries.
- In 2022, the number of measles cases was more than double the total in the previous year.
- The number of children paralysed by polio was up 16 per cent year-on-year in 2022.
- When comparing the 2019 to 2021 period with the previous three-year period, there was an eight-fold increase in the number of children paralysed by polio.
- The poorest households, 1 in 5 children are zero-dose while in the wealthiest, it is just 1 in 20.
- These challenges are greatest in low- and middle-income countries, where about 1 in 10 children in urban areas are zero dose and 1 in 6 in rural areas.
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