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

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Eugene Lam, Emory University; Michael Diaz, Emory University; Allen Gidraf Kahindo Maina, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Muireann Brennan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Language: English
• Date: 2016-11-30
• Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © The Author(s). 2016
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-016-0094-5
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: CONFLICT AND HEALTH
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: 27
• End Page: 27
• Grant/Funding Information: US CDC.
• Keywords: Vaccines; Internally displaced persons; Disease eradication; Outbreaks; MEASLES; Displacement; Rubella; OUTBREAK; Humanitarian emergency; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Immunizations; Measles; Poliomyelitis; Civil conflicts; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Science & Technology; Refugees
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Public Health; Health Sciences, Immunology

Abstract

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.