Pakistan and WHO renew their pledge to protect millions with lifesaving vaccines
27 April 2025, Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan is commemorating World Immunization Week, held annually from 24 to 30 April, with a renewed pledge to promote the lifesaving power of vaccines and protect millions of people of all ages against vaccine-preventable diseases.
Since the creation of Pakistan’s Expanded Programme on Immunization in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1978, millions of Pakistanis have been protected with lifesaving vaccines. Every year, Pakistan vaccinates over 7 million children with routine immunization doses, in addition to reaching 45 million children through multiple supplementary polio vaccination campaigns. In the last 50 years, vaccines have saved 154 million people around the world – the equivalent of 3 million a year, or 6 people every minute.
Under the international theme “Immunization for All is Humanly Possible”, the Federal Directorate of Immunization (FDI), in collaboration with all provincial Expanded Programmes on Immunization (EPIs), WHO, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners – will conduct a series of awareness activities to remind people that vaccines are one of humanity's greatest achievements.