From April 24 to 29, Ukraine hosted the Immunization Week.

According to the World Health Organization, vaccinations annually help prevent up to 3 million deaths from diseases such as tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and diphtheria. However, mass hysteria around low-quality vaccines and general failure of vaccines led to a measles outbreak in Ukraine. The World Immunization Week is designed to destroy all stereotypes and show that vaccination is good.

Previously, the World Immunization Week was held only in European countries and, accordingly, was called the European Immunization Week. Gradually, it was joined by other countries. Now the immunization week is designed to draw people's attention from around the world to the importance of vaccination as the main preventive measure, which helps to save mankind from new epidemics.

VOZ strongly recommends that children be vaccinated against fatal diseases. As arguments they cite such figures: in 2010, 1.7 million unvaccinated children under the age of five died. The worst situation in India, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Congo, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia and South Africa.

In order to avoid further outbreaks of epidemics, the VOZ carries out various educational activities, organizes vaccination of children and adults, invites representatives of different countries to exchange information and experience. The goal of the World Immunization Week in 2018 is to emphasize the need for vaccination throughout the world. And to show how great a role in these efforts can be played by every person - from a donor who regularly donates blood, to an ordinary person.

Within the campaign of 2018, the VOZ in general and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in particular set themselves the following tasks:.

Pay attention to the importance of immunization.

Remind donors of the important role of vaccines and the need to invest in this medical industry.

Tell us about how each person can and should help in the field of vaccine provision.

However, not all in Ukraine are positive about vaccines. For example, the outbreak of measles in January-February 2018 in Ukraine showed how large the number of unvaccinated children. The society is still arguing whether modern vaccines are harmful or not.

It is known that a certain part of the population consciously boycotts preventive vaccinations. Among those who do not believe in vaccination, the president of the League for the Protection of Civil Rights Vyacheslav Kostylev. On the air of the Ukrainian radio, he said that his daughter did not undergo routine vaccinations. Vyacheslav Kostylev himself believes that the collective immunity, that is, 95% of the population must be resistant to the virus, is formed more naturally.

In addition, he noted that the state does not recognize death or disease immediately after vaccination.

According to him, in the United States and other countries at least recognize that vaccination is a risk. In Ukraine, no lethal case was at least somehow connected with vaccination.

The success of vaccination depends on many factors, among which are strict control by the Ministry of Health and a qualitative check of the vaccine that is brought to Ukraine. But in any case, for now, vaccinations remain the only way to prevent serious illnesses. Doing them or not is the choice of each.

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