Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to promote the life-saving power of immunization to protect people of all ages against vaccine-preventable diseases. Since 1974, vaccination has saved 154 million lives – that’s more than 3 million lives a year or six people every minute for five decades. In the same period, vaccination has reduced infant deaths by 40%, and more children now live to see their first birthday and beyond than at any other time in human history. Measles vaccine alone accounts for 60% of those lives saved. Find resources at https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-immunization-week/2025 and help create more awareness by widely sharing the Adventist statement on vaccines: https://www.adventist.org/official-statements/immunization/.
