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

Journal

CONFLICT AND HEALTH
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13031-016-0094-5

Keywords

Vaccines; Refugees; Poliomyelitis; Measles; Rubella; Disease eradication; Internally displaced persons; Humanitarian emergency; Immunizations; Outbreaks; Civil conflicts; Displacement

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  1. US CDC

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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.

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