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WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing – 24 April 2024

WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing – 24 April 2024

일  시 : 2024년 4월 24일

연설자 : WHO 사무총장 Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Glossary

1. World Immunization Week : 세계 예방접종 주간

2. cervical cancer, yellow fever : 자궁경부암, 황열

3. diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis : 디프테리아, 파상풍, 백일해

4. Expanded Programme on Immunization, or EPI : 확대 예방접종 프로그램

5. Smallpox Eradication Programme : 천연두 근절 프로그램

6. tetanus and tuberculosis : 파상풍, 결핵

7. Essential Programme of Immunization ; 필수 예방접종 프로그램

8. meningitis, RSV, mpox : 수막염, RSV, 엠폭스(원숭이두창)

Script / 423단어

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening,

Today marks the start of World Immunization Week – a time to celebrate some of the most powerful inventions in history – vaccines.

Thanks to vaccines, smallpox has been eradicated, polio is on the brink, and many once-feared diseases can now be easily prevented, including measles, cervical cancer, yellow fever, pneumonia and diarrhoea.

Today, 84% of the world’s children have received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis – which is used as a marker of global vaccine coverage.

But only fifty years ago, in 1974, fewer than 5% of infants globally were vaccinated. 

That was the year WHO launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization, or EPI.

The Smallpox Eradication Programme had shown that vaccines could eliminate or even eradicate some diseases.

Building on that success, EPI supported countries to establish standardized vaccination programmes against smallpox and six other diseases: diphtheria, measles, pertussis, polio, tetanus and tuberculosis.

In the five decades since then, every country has established immunization programmes with support from WHO and our partners.

Now called the Essential Programme of Immunization, EPI helps millions of children, adolescents and adults access vaccines against 30 diseases.

A new study led by WHO estimates that EPI has saved at least 154 million lives since 1974 – an average of more than 8000 a day, and 6 every minute of every year for the past 50 years.

Thanks to immunization, a child born today is 40% more likely to see their fifth birthday than a child born 50 years ago.

And more and more lives are being saved as more and more diseases are becoming vaccine preventable, with newer vaccines against COVID-19, malaria, cholera, dengue, meningitis, RSV, Ebola and mpox, and more in development.

Immunization programmes are also the bedrock of primary health care in some of the most remote locations.

A child brought to a clinic for vaccination often receives other life-saving services, such as nutritional support, illness screenings or bed nets.

Over the past 50 years, EPI has achieved so much, but we cannot take these gains for granted. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted routine immunization programmes globally, while in many countries, crisis and conflict means millions of people miss out on vaccines.

Around the world, WHO and our partners are supporting countries to respond to outbreaks, catch up on children missed during the pandemic, and provide access to vaccines in even the most difficult contexts.

In the past 50 years, EPI has shown what is possible when partners work together, including those who are joining us today.