In 1974, at the request of member states, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) to make life-saving vaccines universally accessible. Marking 50 years ...

Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) partakes in World Immunization Week, a period of reflection, raising awareness, and future planning surrounding global action required to combat ...

Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions we can make. Every year vaccination programmes save millions of lives. They have helped eradicate diseases like smallpox – a deadly virus ...

One life every six minutes. According to a study published by the Lancet, one of the world's most prominent academic journals, that is how many lives vaccination has saved for the past fifty years – ...