#vaccine-preventable-diseases

#vaccine-preventable-diseases

While coverage has been slipping since 2015, public health specialists say the speed and scale of the drop in 2024 is without precedent a collapse deepened by Javier Milei's sweeping austerity programme, which has slashed the national health budget and strained the outreach networks that once underpinned Argentina's vaccination successes. The decline is serious. Coverage continues to fall. It has never been this low,

At least 36 states have witnessed a drop in rates for at least one key vaccine from the 2013-14 to the 2023-24 school years. And half of states have seen an across-the-board decline in all four vaccination rates.