India, June 25 -- Millions of children around the world are at risk of serious and deadly diseases because vaccination efforts have slowed down or gone backwards, according to a large study published in The Lancet.
This new study, led by researchers from the University of Washington, looked at data from 1980 to 2023, using more than 1,000 data sources from 204 countries.
Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved the lives of about 154 million children by protecting them from deadly diseases. However, this progress has slowed or even reversed in many places since 2010.
For example, measles vaccine rates have dropped in 100 out of 204 countries, and vaccine coverage has gone down in 21 out of 36 wealthy countries like the US, UK, France,...