世卫组织免疫、疫苗和生物制品司长凯特·奥布赖恩博士(Dr Kate O’Brien)说:“我们欢迎生产商的参与,并希望这将是朝着将来以可承受的价格提供更多疫苗迈出的一步。
“We welcome this engagement from manufacturers and hope it will be a step towards making more vaccines available in the future at affordable prices,” said Dr Kate O’Brien, Director of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO.
“It is unacceptable that some of the most at-risk children are not vaccinated against devastating diseases like rotavirus because of lack of availability or high costs.”
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轮状病毒是全球5岁以下儿童严重腹泻的最常见病因,每年导致多达20万名儿童死亡。
Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoeal disease in children under 5 years globally, responsible for up to 200,000 child deathseach year.
Children in refugee camps and displaced communities are among the most vulnerable in the world to such diseases, due to population density, poor hygiene and sanitation, and higher rates of malnutrition.
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因此,疫苗接种对这些儿童而言尤其重要,否则他们可能无法获得基本卫生服务。
Vaccination is therefore especially critical for these children, who may otherwise lack access to essential health services.
The Humanitarian Mechanism facilitates access to vaccines for humanitarian organizations working in countries affected by emergencies, where access and prices have otherwise been a bottleneck.
“Every day across the globe, children die because they are critically weakened by diarrhoea – it’s one of the biggest killers of young children in the world.
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在全球范围内,每天都有儿童因为严重腹泻而死亡。
Save the Children is seeing the devastating impacts the rotavirus has on children every day, so we welcome this important commitment as a vital step in protecting some of the most vulnerable children from life-threatening, yet easily preventable diseases.
Since 2017, nearly one million doses of pneumococcal vaccine have been approved for use by civil society organizations through the Mechanism in 12 countries: Algeria, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Greece, Kenya, Lebanon, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan and Syria.