The new World Health Organization recommendation on the 2-dose measles vaccine schedule and the way forward in African Region

The new W.H.O. recommendation, which drops the coverage criterion for adoption of the 2-dose measles vaccine schedule, makes some African countries eligible for the 2-dose schedule which were previously ineligible. We look at the implications of the new recommendation for Ethiopia and Nigeria, the t...

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Autores principales: Biellik, Robin Julian, Davis, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29296149
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.3.11611
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spelling pubmed-57459312018-01-02 The new World Health Organization recommendation on the 2-dose measles vaccine schedule and the way forward in African Region Biellik, Robin Julian Davis, Robert Pan Afr Med J Editorial The new W.H.O. recommendation, which drops the coverage criterion for adoption of the 2-dose measles vaccine schedule, makes some African countries eligible for the 2-dose schedule which were previously ineligible. We look at the implications of the new recommendation for Ethiopia and Nigeria, the two largest African countries which are eligible under the new recommendation. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5745931/ /pubmed/29296149 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.3.11611 Text en © Robin Julian Biellik et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr The new World Health Organization recommendation on the 2-dose measles vaccine schedule and the way forward in African Region
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title_short The new World Health Organization recommendation on the 2-dose measles vaccine schedule and the way forward in African Region
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29296149
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.3.11611
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