Vaccines are most amazing achievements of humanity

Vaccines are a vital tool that saves millions of lives annually. Concerningly, the US government wants to cut funding for a key organization that saves lives worldwide through immunisation. Amid vaccine safety debates, the world is witnessing a rise in measles cases.

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The politics of the COVID pandemic saw a growing rejection of vaccines, and that shift has contributed to the Trump administration's announcement to cut funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi is estimated to have saved the lives of 17 million children over the last 25 years, The loss of US support would mean that 75 million children would miss their routine vaccinations in the next five years, and more than 1.2 million children could die as a result, according to the Tribune news Service

The vast number of children dying of infectious diseases today live in poorer countries. Still, we forget that less than two centuries ago, even rich countries lived in an era of pestilence. Then, infectious diseases caused almost half of annual American and British deaths, whereas today they cause only 3 percent of all deaths in America. Yet, infectious diseases still kill 3 million children in the world’s poorer regions.