Dar es Salaam, April 24 -- GENEVA: THE WHO, UNICEF and Gavi said there has been a rise in diseases like measles, meningitis and yellow fever. Funding cuts, misinformation and humanitarian crises have worsened the problem.

The WHO, UNICEF and Gavi vaccine alliance on Wednesday warned that there has been a global uptick in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, meningitis and yellow fever.

The joint statement was made at the start of World Immunization Week, which takes place from April 24-30.

“Vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives over the past five decades. Funding cuts to global health have put these hard-won gains in jeopardy,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebr...