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The goal to establish the World Immunization Week, is to promote one of the world’s most powerful tools for health – the use of vaccines to protect, or "immunize", people of all ages against disease.

Immunization averts an estimated 2-3 million deaths every year, providing protection from diphtheria, measles, pertussis (whooping cough), pneumonia, polio, rotavirus diarrhea, rubella and tetanus.

Yet, an estimated 22 million infants are not fully immunized with routine vaccines and more than 1.5 million children younger than 5 die from diseases that could be prevented by existing vaccines.

Click here to find a Recommended Immunization Schedule for Persons Age 0 Through 18 Years.


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