July 15 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Some practices will cut patients off or decline to see them if children are not kept on a certain vaccine schedule. Could ...

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Of the 2,066 counties the study looked at, 78% saw a decline in MMR vaccination rates. But rates can vary substantially ...

Rising Conflicts Globally Slowed Childhood Vaccination Rate in 2023, UN Says By Jennifer Rigby and Christy Santhosh (Reuters) - More children were left out of critical vaccination drives for ...

NEW YORK – More children were left out of critical vaccination drives for diseases such as diphtheria, teta­nus and whooping cough in 2023 as a rise in conflicts across the globe hindered the ...

The biggest fall in vaccination coverage globally was in Sudan, which has been decimated by 15 months of civil war. It saw coverage rates ... children live in countries with fragile, conflict ...

For example, there were around 600,000 fewer "zero dose" children across the African region in 2023 than in 2022, and coverage of the HPV vaccine, which protects against cervical cancer, also ...