World Immunization Week 2022

Every year, the last week of April is observed as the World Immunization Week. This year, the theme is ‘Long Life For All’. WHO aims to raise awareness and highlight the collective action needed to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. 

Vaccines are widely recognized as one of the most cost-effective and successful public health interventions.  Across the South-East Asia Region, immunization has prevented millions of deaths and disabilities, achieved dramatic declines in once highly-endemic diseases, stopped the transmission of wild poliovirus, eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus, and significantly reduced the transmission of measles, Japanese encephalitis, and hepatitis B viruses.

Resources

• Immunization in South-East Asia Region
• Global World Immunization Week campaign
• Vaccine preventable diseases
• Publications