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Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine childhood immunization coverage for many vaccine-preventable diseases at the global, regional and national levels. In Pakistan, more than 40 million children were unable to receive measles vaccination and around 50 million children missed polio vaccination...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8439171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41577-021-00627-7 |
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author | Rana, Muhammad Suleman Ikram, Aamer Salman, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Umair, Massab |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine childhood immunization coverage for many vaccine-preventable diseases at the global, regional and national levels. In Pakistan, more than 40 million children were unable to receive measles vaccination and around 50 million children missed polio vaccination in 2020. Moreover, more than 36 million children did not receive vitamin A supplementation in 2020. Implementing catch-up vaccination services to prevent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, particularly polio and measles, in malnourished children is urgently required to prevent a global resurgence of these deadly diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-84391712021-09-15 Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan Rana, Muhammad Suleman Ikram, Aamer Salman, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Umair, Massab Nat Rev Immunol Comment The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine childhood immunization coverage for many vaccine-preventable diseases at the global, regional and national levels. In Pakistan, more than 40 million children were unable to receive measles vaccination and around 50 million children missed polio vaccination in 2020. Moreover, more than 36 million children did not receive vitamin A supplementation in 2020. Implementing catch-up vaccination services to prevent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, particularly polio and measles, in malnourished children is urgently required to prevent a global resurgence of these deadly diseases. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-09-14 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8439171/ /pubmed/34522031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41577-021-00627-7 Text en © Springer Nature Limited 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Comment Rana, Muhammad Suleman Ikram, Aamer Salman, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Umair, Massab Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan |
title | Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan |
title_full | Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan |
title_fullStr | Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan |
title_full_unstemmed | Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan |
title_short | Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan |
title_sort | negative impact of the covid-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from pakistan |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8439171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41577-021-00627-7 |
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