UNICEF is the world's largest distributor of vaccines to the developing world, supplying vaccines for 56 per cent of the world's children in over 190 countries. In 2010 UNICEF procured over 2.5 billion doses of traditional and new vaccines worth $750 million.
In emergencies such as conflict or a natural disaster, we deliver vaccination campaigns to help protect vulnerable children from preventable diseases when health services are down.
Globally, children face many challenges, but disease is one of the greatest. Every day 4,000 children will die and many thousands will fall ill from just six preventable diseases – measles, polio, tetanus, TB, diphtheria and whooping cough. For just £12, we can vaccinate a child against all six.
There's still a lot of work to be done, but today 4 out of 5 children are being immunised – that's more than ever before. With your help, we could eliminate a number of these terrible childhood diseases in our lifetime.
Find out more about UNICEF's work on immunisation below, or read a photo story about UNICEF's work on immunisation.
UNICEF is funded entirely by voluntary contributions and receives no funding from the UN Budget.
