Globally $35 billion will be required for immunization in the next ten years to save an additional ten million lives. The money will go towards reaching more children with basic vaccines, improving health care systems and introducing new vaccines such as those for pneumococcus, rotavirus, meningitis and Japanese encephalitis, a UNICEF and WHO report released here revealed.

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To protect against infectious disease, your child needs various immunisations. To determine what type of Vaccines is required and when it needs to be administered enter the date of birth of your child and the immunisation scheduler will workout the required schedule for immunisation of your child. Please remember to inform your child’s Pediatrician, if your child has any of the following, so that appropriate modifications to the schedule/vaccines used, may be made: 1. The child was born prematurely. 2. The child has an underlying chronic medical condition (heart, kidney, lung etc). 3. If the child has an underlying neurological condition. 4. If she is an adoptive child. 5. If there is a history of immune deficiency disorders in the child’s family. 6. If the child has had a reaction to a previous vaccination (persistent crying for 4 hours or more, difficulty in breathing, unusual body movements like a fit etc).

Health and the Millennium Development Goals: from Commitment to Action.

Since 2003, the Annual Report of the Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization has focused on a specific area of PAHO/WHO's technical cooperation, providing an in-depth analysis of a key aspect of the Organization's wide-ranging work as well as a conceptual lens through which to report its many projects, activities, and achievements.

The focus of this year's report—the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—was chosen for two reasons. As a global mandate that reflects and reinforces the Organization's core values and orientation, the MDG framework has given increased impetus and direction to PAHO/WHO's technical cooperation throughout the past decade.

In addition, the period covered by this year's report—2010-2011—coincides with the two-thirds mark between the Millennium Declaration and the 2015 end date proposed for achieving the MDGs. With just five years remaining, it is a fitting moment to review progress toward achieving the MDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as PAHO/WHO's support for its member countries' efforts and lessons that can be used to accelerate progress over the next few years.