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Vaccines – Saving Lives
Worldwide
This year’s
World
Immunization
Week
starts this
week:
April 24-30
Video: Vaccines are Everyone’s
Business
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Ten Great Public Health Achievements
United States, 1900 - 1999
Vaccination
Motor-vehicle safety
Safer workplaces
Control of infectious diseases
Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease
Safer and healthier foods
Healthier mothers and babies
Family planning
Fluoridation of drinking water
Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
– Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999
Decreased Mortality in the US from
Infectious Diseases in the 1900s
Sharp drop in infant and child mortality
In 1900
30.4% of all deaths among children <5; by
1997 only 1.4%
Leading causes of death pneumonia,
tuberculosis, diarrhea, and diphtheria
29.2 year increase in life expectancy!!!
Progress in Eradication of
Global Infections
Eradication of Smallpox in 1977
Elimination of Poliomyelitis from
the Western Hemisphere in 1994
Potential elimination of global
poliomyelitis in the next 5 to 10
years
Potential elimination of measles in the next
10 to 20 years
Vaccines in development for prevention of
diarrheal diseases, cervical cancer (HPV)
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Vaccine Successes and
Failures
Pediatric vaccinations have had the
most profound impact of any
intervention on increasing global
child survival, accounting for 3
million children’s lives saved
annually.
Even in the 21st century, however,
vaccine-preventable infectious
diseases, including tetanus, measles
and pertussis, cause disease and
death in many parts of the world.
Globally…
One death in three of the ~54 million deaths
worldwide is from an infectious cause
Virtually all of these deaths are in developing areas of
the world – mainly India and sub-Saharan Africa
Disproportionately affect
children
Many of the developing
world deaths are due to
preventable causes
Pneumonia and Diarrhea –
account for 40% of these deaths
Tuberculosis
Measles
Malaria
Video: Stuff they don’t want you
to know about Vaccines
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Measles is…
• One of the top five causes of vaccine
preventable deaths in the world.
• One of the most contagious diseases; 90%
of those without immunity will quickly
contract measles when exposed to the
virus.
• Measles takes the life of 335 children every
day – more than 122,000 a year. And it’s
completely preventable
• Easy to prevent – the vaccine costs less
than US$1.
Measles is…
- Measles, a viral respiratory infection, killed over
500,000 children in 2003, more than any other
vaccine-preventable disease.
- The measles death toll in Africa is so high –
every minute one child dies – that many mothers
don't give children real names until they have
survived the disease.
- Measles weakens the immune system and
renders children very susceptible to fatal
complications from diarrhea, pneumonia and
malnutrition.
- Those that survive may suffer blindness,
deafness or brain damage
Measles Quiz
What areas of the world are currently affected by
measles?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Developing countries
Africa
Africa, Asia, and Europe
Every part of the world is affected by
measles
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Measles Quiz
D. Measles Affects Every Part of the World
2013 Outbreaks
Measles Quiz
Which of these serious side effects can result
from a measles infection and lead to lifelong
health complications or death in children?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Blindness from corneal scarring
Encephalitis
Pneumonia
Severe diarrhea
All of the above
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Measles Quiz
E: All of the above
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Measles Quiz
True or False:
Measles related deaths have decreased by 78% since
2000.
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Measles Quiz
True! Global efforts to vaccinate against measles, which started
in 2000, led to over 1 billion children being vaccinated and
millions of lives being saved.
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Measles Quiz
How many deaths have been prevented by measles
vaccination efforts since 2001?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
2 Million
3 Million
7 Million
13.8 Million
20 million
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Measles Quiz
D. 13.8 million deaths have been prevented!
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Measles Quiz
Why must we stay vigilant in our work to
combat measles?
• A) Some large populations remain unvaccinated
• B) 5 out of 6 major regions of the world experienced
large outbreaks last year
• C) In the Americas (where measles was eliminated
as of 2002) imported measles cases continue to be
recorded
• D) 122,000 people died from measles in 2012
• E) All of the above
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Measles Quiz
• E) All of the above
“One of the challenges of the fight against
measles, and of immunization in general, is
that you’ve got to keep at it. You’ve got to be
relentless, because children who need to be
protected are born every day. You don’t
vaccinate once. You do it year after year. As
long as you do, children are safe. But when
you stop, children die.”
- William H. Gates, Sr., Co-chair and Trustee of the The Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
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Why are children dying?
More than 30 million children are
unimmunized either because vaccines are
unavailable, because health services are
poorly provided or inaccessible
or because families are
uninformed or misinformed
about when and why to bring
their children for immunization.
Pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles,
HIV/AIDS and malnutrition are the primary
killers of children in the developing world.
These children die because they are poor, they
do not have access to routine immunization or
health services, their diets lack sufficient
vitamin A and other essential micronutrients,
and they live in circumstances that allow
pathogens (disease-causing organisms) to
thrive.
The possibility that children will become
seriously ill or die depends largely on whether
their immune systems can fight off infections.
Malnutrition, combined with unsanitary or
crowded conditions, makes them extremely
vulnerable.
Access to immunization varies
greatly across the world
A child in a developing country is ten times more likely
to die of a vaccine-preventable disease than a child from
an industrialized one.
In some countries, up to 70% of
children do not receive the full set
of vaccines; the lowest coverage is
found in sub-Saharan Africa.
It is estimated that a child in an industrialized country
receives eleven vaccines on average, while a child from a
developing country is lucky to receive half that number
Why Global Eradication of
Infectious Diseases?
Immunization is one of the
most cost effective health
interventions in existence.
If polio is eradicated, $ 1.5
billion per year will be saved
on immunization costs alone.
(as of Nov 2014 it exists in
only THREE countries!!! )
Why Global Eradication of
Infectious Diseases?
Similarly, eradication of smallpox in
1979 led to direct savings of $ 275
million per year.
Immunization reduces the social and
financial costs of treating diseases,
offering opportunities for poverty
reduction and greater social and
economic development.
Video: Bill Gates - Vaccines
Save Lives
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