World Immunization Week is held in the last week of April each year.
Its aim is to promote immunisation and its role as one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions in the world. Vaccines protect us against harmful diseases – they use your body’s natural defenses to protect against infections. They train your immune system to create antibodies, and this prevents us from getting sick.
The most common vaccines – like those for measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis – have been in use for decades. Millions of people receive them safely every year. Investment and new research are enabling groundbreaking approaches to vaccine development (including the COVID-19 vaccines), which are changing the science of immunization forever, bringing us closer still to a healthier future.
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