13.5 million children miss out on all vaccines as UN warns progress ‘too slow’ to meet immunisation targets

More than half of these ‘zero-dose’ children are in sub-Saharan Africa – with experts saying recent gains towards global immunisation could unravel as aid cuts hit


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