Rising conflicts globally slowed childhood vaccination rate in 2023, UN says By Jennifer Rigby and Christy Santhosh July 15, 2024 12:06 AM UTC Updated July 15, 2024 ...

Over three-quarters of U.S. states, or 39, had vaccination rates for the MMR shot below the "Healthy People 2030" target rate of 95% during the 2023-2024 school year.

New York, for example, had an estimated childhood vaccination rate of 97.7% for the 2023-24 school year, according to the CDC. Idaho had a rate of just 79.6%. Childhood MMR vaccination rates by ...

We examined more than 200,000 records in 15 African countries. Our approach compares siblings born before and after conflict in the same area, avoiding the biases associated with other methods ...

The biggest fall in vaccination coverage globally was in Sudan, which has been decimated by 15 months of civil war. It saw coverage rates fall to 57% in 2023 from 75% in 2022.

More children were left out of critical vaccination drives for diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough last year as a rise in conflicts across the globe hindered the supply of life ...

The biggest fall in vaccination coverage globally was in Sudan, which has been decimated by 15 months of civil war. It saw coverage rates fall to 57 per cent in 2023 from 75 per cent in 2022.

The biggest fall in vaccination coverage globally was in Sudan, which has been decimated by 15 months of civil war. It saw coverage rates fall to 57% in 2023 from 75% in 2022.

About 14.5 million children failed to get vaccinated in 2023, compared with 13.9 million a year earlier, according to U.N. estimates.