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Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director

UNICEF: 2.9 million Indian kids miss first dose of measles vaccine

 BS RAWAT
NEW DELHI : India has 2.9 million kids who have missed out on the first dose of measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017 despite over 80%  immunization coverage, the UNICEF has said.

In the year 2017, Nigeria had the highest number of kids under one year of age who missed out on the first dose of vaccine, at nearly four million.

The US topped the list of high-income countries with most kids not receiving the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017 at over 2.5 million.

The US is followed by France and the UK, with over millions unvaccinated kids, during the same period.

It was reported that 169 million kids missed out on the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, or 21.1 million kids a year on an average, the United Nations child health body said.

Widening pockets of unvaccinated kids have created a pathway to the measles epidemic around the globe.

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said, "The ground for the world measles epidemics we are witnessing today was laid years ago."


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