Are You Updated Enough for This World Immunization Week 2014?

This year World Immunization Week campaign aims to promote world’s most powerful tools of health-the use of vaccines to guard people of all ages against disease.

Specific goals of this year is-

• Why you need to get vaccinated.
• What vaccines are available to protect against disease.
• To motivate people to check their vaccination status & their family members.
• Get the vaccine which they need from local health practitioner.
• When you need booster doses.
• Whether you need any vaccine before travelling.

Increasing public understanding of the benefits of vaccination is a key objective of the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP). The Global Vaccine Action Plan is a framework to improve health by extending the full benefits of immunization to all people. The Global Vaccine Action Plan endorsed by the 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly in May 2012 ― is a framework to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.

Immunization is widely recognized & cost effective measure to protect people from life threatening disease. It prevents 2-3 million deaths every year. A lack of information about vaccination, on the other hand, is one of the key reasons why adults consciously choose not to get vaccinated themselves or to vaccinate their children.