World Immunization Week 2023

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World Immunization Week 2023

"The Big Catch-Up"

World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed to protect people from vaccine-preventable diseases. The ultimate goal of World Immunization Week is for more children, adults and their communities to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases, allowing them to live happier, healthier lives.

Other hot topics

World Malaria Day 2023

Today, 25 April, marks the World Malaria Day 2023. It will be marked under the theme “Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement”. Within this theme, WHO will focus on the critical importance of reaching marginalized populations with the tools and strategies that are available today.

Sudan emergency

Since 15 April, almost 330 people have died and 3200 have been injured as a result of fighting between government and armed opposition forces in Khartoum and other states. WHO urges all parties to end the violence and put the safety and security of their own people above all else.

WHO releases the largest collection of health inequality data

WHO has launched the Health Inequality Data Repository, the most comprehensive global collection of publicly available disaggregated data and evidence on population health and its determinants.

Will the world eradicate polio in 2023?

WHO and partners are aiming to interrupt all remaining transmission of poliovirus in 2023. Will the world eradicate this debilitating disease in 2023? How far have we come in our efforts and what will it take to bring the cases down to zero? WHO’s Aidan O’Leary explains in Science in 5.