Global Vaccine Action Plan: the big six hits and misses

The Global Vaccine Action Plan had envisioned a world where everyone lives life free from vaccine preventable diseases by 2020. It had set six targets :

Immunization against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (DTP3)

Target: 90% immunization coverage against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough

• Gap: 65 countries

Introduction of under-utilized vaccines

• Target: At least 90 low or middle income countries to have introduced one or more under-utilized vaccines by 2015.ON TRACKPolio eradication
• Target: No new cases after 2014
• Gap: 3 countries remain polio endemic

Maternal and neonatal tetanus: Global elimination

• Target: Eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus
• Gap: 24 countries

Measles elimination

• Target: Eliminate from three WHO regions
• Gap: 16% of all children are not being immunized against measles

Rubella elimination

• Target: Eliminate rubella from two WHO regions
• Gap: Half of all children do not receive the rubella vaccine