Using the theme ‘Vaccines bring us closer’, World Immunisation Week 2021 will urge greater engagement around immunisation globally to promote the importance of vaccination in bringing people together and improving the health and wellbeing. World Immunisation Week is celebrated annually in the last week of April, 24-30.
For over 200 years, vaccines have protected us against diseases that threaten lives and prohibit our development. With their help, we can progress without the burden of diseases like smallpox and polio, which cost humanity hundreds of millions of lives. Vaccines themselves continue to advance, bringing us closer to ending suffering from childhood diseases like measles. Investment and new research is enabling groundbreaking approaches to vaccine development, which are changing the science of immunisation forever, bringing us closer still to a healthier future.
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