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Friday, 21 April 2023
MEDIA ADVISORY
Press Conference on World Immunization Week and "The Big Catch-Up"
When: Monday, 24 April at 16.15 CEST
Subject: World Immunization Week and “The Big Catch-up”, a targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic
25 million children missed at least one essential vaccine in 2021 and 18 million children in the world received no vaccines at all. Action to catch-up is needed everywhere, and especially in the 20 low- and middle-income countries where over three-quarters of children who missed vaccinations live.
Speaker: Dr Kate O’Brien, WHO Director of Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), WHO
Join via Zoom:
- Link: https://who.zoom.us/j/99537856284
- Passcode: vpcWIW%23
Join by Phone:
- International numbers available: https://who.zoom.us/u/abdIIBB0I
- Webinar ID: 995 3785 6284
- Numeric passcode for phone access: 820081425
A joint press release (WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) will be available under embargo on Monday (embargo lifts on 24 April at 14:30 CEST). Please write to mediainquries@who.int on Monday to request a copy.
Notes to journalists
The press conference will be in English.
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