MEDIA ADVISORY:World Immunization Week and "The Big Catch-Up" press conference, Monday 24 April at 16:15 CEST (reminder)

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Monday, 24 April 2023

Embargoed until 18:00 CEST on 24 April 2023

REMINDER MEDIA ADVISORY

Press Conference on World Immunization Week and "The Big Catch-Up"

When: Monday, 24 April at 16.15 CEST (Geneva)

Subject: World Immunization Week and “The Big Catch-up”, a targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic

25 million children missed at least one essential vaccine in 2021 and 18 million children in the world received no vaccines at all. Action to catch-up is needed everywhere, and especially in the 20 low- and middle-income countries where over three-quarters of children who missed vaccinations live.

Speaker: Dr Kate O’Brien, WHO Director of Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), WHO

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An embargoed joint press release (WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) is available upon request to [email protected] and [email protected]. Embargo lifts at 18:00 CEST (Geneva) /12:00 NYC / 09:00 Seattle today, 24 April 2023.

Notes to journalists

The press conference will be in English.

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