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COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever: The need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The immunization programs have been jeopardized all over the world due to the stay-at-home constraints imposed, to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This has directly or indirectly placed the global health care system in peril, resulting in an overlapping public health crisis. With this commen...

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Autores principales: Rackimuthu, Sudhan, Hunain, Reem, Uday, Utkarsha, Muzzamil, Muhammad, Rehman, Majeeb ur, Okonji, Osaretin Christabel, Lobo, Careena Ann, Essar, Mohammad Yasir, Costa, Ana Carla dos Santos, Ahmad, Shoaib, Bushabu, Fidèle Nyimi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of INDIACLEN. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8731223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35013719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100956
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Sumario:The immunization programs have been jeopardized all over the world due to the stay-at-home constraints imposed, to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This has directly or indirectly placed the global health care system in peril, resulting in an overlapping public health crisis. With this commentary, we aim to accentuate the need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in lieu of the intersecting COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever outbreak, besides, providing recommendations so as to help alleviate the situation.