Health Curriculum: Unit 6--Main text: Grades 7-11

Fighting Disease:
Health At The End Of The Millennium
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Unit 6
Immunization

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(GRADES 7-11)

The Big...

...Difference

	In 1974, only 5 percent of the world's children were immunized against the six childhood diseases.
	In 1974, the World Health Organization launched its main global immunization programme.
	By the 1990s, 80 percent of all children born each year were being immunized before their first birthday.
	An achievement in a span of three decades: involving 500 million immunization contacts with children every year preventing the deaths of 3 million children every year saving 750,000 children every year from being blinded, crippled, mentally retarded or otherwise disabled

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	Over 20% of the world's children, mostly in developing countries, are not immunized against the six targeted diseases.
	In Africa, 50% of children are not immunized.
	98 percent of all measles deaths occur in developing countries.
	Overall, 12 million children under the age of five die each year.
	Three million of these children do not live to be a week old.
	Two million of these deaths are from diseases which could have been prevented with proper immunization.

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