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INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 653-657Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihz120
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Despite the benefits of vaccination, global immunization coverage progress has stalled, facing challenges in reaching and sustaining optimal coverage. Context-appropriate strategies are needed to address the supply- and demand-side root causes to achieve and maintain optimal immunization coverage.
Despite the enormous benefits of vaccination, global immunisation coverage progress has stalled and remains suboptimal in many countries. In this commentary, we review the recently published update of theWorld Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund Estimates of National Immunization Coverage. We highlight trends in which, despite substantial gains made in improving immunisation coverage at the global level, there remain numerous challenges with reaching and sustaining optimal coverage. We contextualise the trends by exploring plausible supply- and demand-side root causes. Based on these, we stress the need for targeted, context-appropriate strategies for reaching and maintaining optimal immunisation coverage.
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