Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases

Populations affected by humanitarian emergencies may require unique strategies to ensure access to life-saving vaccines and attain sufficiently high population immunity to interrupt virus circulation. Vaccination strategies among displaced populations should not be an afterthought and must be part o...

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Autores principales: Lam, Eugene, Diaz, Michael, Maina, Allen Gidraf Kahindo, Brennan, Muireann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Letter to Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-016-0094-5
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spelling pubmed-51292402016-12-12 Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases Lam, Eugene Diaz, Michael Maina, Allen Gidraf Kahindo Brennan, Muireann Confl Health Letter to Editor Populations affected by humanitarian emergencies may require unique strategies to ensure access to life-saving vaccines and attain sufficiently high population immunity to interrupt virus circulation. Vaccination strategies among displaced populations should not be an afterthought and must be part of the vaccine-preventable disease eradication and elimination initiatives from the start. BioMed Central 2016-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5129240/ /pubmed/27956938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-016-0094-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Letter to Editor
Lam, Eugene
Diaz, Michael
Maina, Allen Gidraf Kahindo
Brennan, Muireann
Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases
title Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases
title_full Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases
title_fullStr Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases
title_full_unstemmed Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases
title_short Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases
title_sort displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases
topic Letter to Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-016-0094-5
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