Global health and development chiefs in New York have said that immunizing children beside preventable diseases is critical to reach United Nations-led goals to reduce child deaths. At an event hosted by UNICEF, the Republic of Kenya and the GAVI Alliance, health ministers, donors and the heads of UN agencies called for the introduction of latest vaccines that can dramatically reduce deaths due to diarrhoea and pneumonia, the two biggest killers of children under five. Kenya's Minister of Public Health and Sanitation, Dr Rose Mugo, said her county's extended immunization program has decreased deaths among children from 115 per 1,000 live births in 2003 to 75 per 1,000 live births today a 35 percent reduction.
"When we are able to introduce new vaccines against diarrhoea and pneumonia we are sure that the number will drop even further," she said. Dr Guillermo Gonzalez, Nicaragua's former health minister and present Special Advisor to the President, said his country was reaching up to 95 percent of children with routine Immunization. "Since we introduced the rotavirus vaccine three years ago we have experiential 35 to 40 percent reductions in mortality," he said. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said she was proud to guide an organization, which together with UNICEF was one of the "midwives" that gave birth to the GAVI Alliance in 2000.
"Vaccines are one of the mainly cost effective health interventions and one of the best buys. We petition to the generosity of donors 'open your purses'," she said. "Diarrhoea and pneumonia are the two biggest killers of children. If you invest you can save millions." Government donors from Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States also pledged to keep sustaining GAVI's global Immunization effort. The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, MP, said it was a "global scandal" that children were still failing from vaccine-preventable diseases, and donors needed to do more.
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"When we are able to introduce new vaccines against diarrhoea and pneumonia we are sure that the number will drop even further," she said. Dr Guillermo Gonzalez, Nicaragua's former health minister and present Special Advisor to the President, said his country was reaching up to 95 percent of children with routine Immunization. "Since we introduced the rotavirus vaccine three years ago we have experiential 35 to 40 percent reductions in mortality," he said. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said she was proud to guide an organization, which together with UNICEF was one of the "midwives" that gave birth to the GAVI Alliance in 2000.
"Vaccines are one of the mainly cost effective health interventions and one of the best buys. We petition to the generosity of donors 'open your purses'," she said. "Diarrhoea and pneumonia are the two biggest killers of children. If you invest you can save millions." Government donors from Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States also pledged to keep sustaining GAVI's global Immunization effort. The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, MP, said it was a "global scandal" that children were still failing from vaccine-preventable diseases, and donors needed to do more.
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