{"id":97232,"date":"2021-07-30T06:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=97232"},"modified":"2021-07-30T06:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:16:55","slug":"auto-draft-641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/07\/30\/auto-draft-641\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines Save 50 Million Lives, But COVID Threatens Future Gains, Say Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 LONDON – Vaccination programs against some of the world\u2019s deadliest diseases have saved tens of millions of lives over the past twenty years, according to a new study. However, the researchers warn that continued progress is threatened by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The scientists from the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium, funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, looked at vaccination programs over the past two decades targeting ten infectious diseases across 112 low- and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n

They found that some 50 million lives have been saved by vaccines, most of them children.<\/p>\n

The diseases the researchers looked at included measles, hepatitis B, human papillomavirus (HPV), yellow fever, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Streptococcus pneumoniae, rubella, rotavirus, Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A, and Japanese encephalitis.<\/p>\n

The study is the largest assessment of vaccine impact before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Katy Gaythorpe, a co-author of the report at Imperial College London, told VOA that the successes of the past two decades would be replicated if progress in vaccination programs can be sustained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we continued with the vaccinations in our projections, so beyond 2019, we\u2019d avert another 47 million deaths \u2014 so huge numbers,\u201d Gaythorpe said. \u201cAnd really what we wanted to show in this paper is this is what we projected vaccination to look like before the COVID pandemic. And we wanted to emphasize these long-term effects, these long-term benefits of vaccination going into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Immunization programs have added benefits beyond the prevention of specific diseases.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, if people aren\u2019t getting sick of vaccine-preventable diseases then that means there\u2019s less stress on healthcare due to those infections, which means you could potentially be treating people for other things,\u201d Gaythorpe said.<\/p>\n

But the researchers warn that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted vaccination programs \u2014 and could lead to a decline in coverage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got not only healthcare services stretched by possibly treating people infected with COVID, we\u2019ve also got people\u2019s personal choice \u2014 you know, they might put off going to seek immunization just because of fear surrounding being infected with COVID,\u201d Gaythorpe said.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization earlier this year launched its \u201cimmunization agenda 2030\u201d to try to get vaccine programs back on track and reach even more people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would mean reducing by half the children who are completely left out of essential vaccines \u2014 the \u2018zero dose children\u2019 \u2014 [and] it would mean achieving another 500 introductions of new and underused vaccines in low- and middle-income countries,\u201d the WHO\u2019s Vaccines Department chief Kate O’Brien told reporters in April.<\/p>\n

Scientists say the huge number of lives saved demonstrates the stunning advances in modern medicine \u2014 and the importance of keeping other vaccine programs on track, alongside tackling the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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