WHO: Immunization coverage
Fact sheet N°378
Updated November 2013

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Key facts:
:: Immunization prevents illness, disability and death from vaccine-preventable diseases including diphtheria, measles, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, rotavirus diarrhoea, rubella and tetanus.

:: Global vaccination coverage is holding steady.

:: Immunization currently averts an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths every year.

:: But an estimated 22.6 million infants worldwide are still missing out on basic vaccines.

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