In the next five years, the world hopes nearly every child will be fully protected from preventable diseases through vaccination. But a new study shows that while Africa has made big strides in immunising children, many countries could still miss the target.
While millions more children have protection against diseases such as measles, polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus, 12 countries are not on track to meet global immunisation targets by 2030, according to a new study published by Phuong The Nguyen of Hitotsubashi University, Japan, in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine, on July 29.
