Migration health: 2021 impact overview
The year 2021 gave us many reasons for hope. With diagnostic, therapeutic and immunization advances, science offered solutions to kickstart recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effects.
Immunisation
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2021 Nigeria multiple indicator cluster survey (MICS) & national immunization coverage survey (NICS)
This new report- Nigeria’s National Immunisation Coverage Survey (NICS), has revealed that the country has recorded a significant decrease in the number of children who get married before the age of 18.
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Progress and challenges with achieving universal immunization coverage
The largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years has been recorded in official data published by WHO and UNICEF. The percentage of children who received three doses of
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Progresses and challenges with sustaining and advancing immunization coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic
The key goal of the Immunization Agenda 2030 is to make vaccination achievable for everyone, everywhere, at every age, by 2030. The Covid-19 pandemic and associated disruptions have strained health systems
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Data synthesis: COVID-19 vaccine perceptions in Sub-Saharan Africa- social and behavioural science data, March 2020-April 2021
Safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 are seen as a critical path to ending the pandemic. This synthesis brings together data related to public perceptions about COVID-19 vaccines collected between
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Progress towards measles elimination – China, January 2013–June 2019
<p>In 2005, countries in WHO Western Pacific Region, including China, resolved to eliminate measles by 2012 or as soon as feasible thereafter. As of 2018, 92 of the 37 countries or areas in the Region
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Regional bodies supporting national-level evidence-informed decision-making on vaccines
<p>A range of regional bodies support national decision-making processes related to immunisation and public health policy. This brief profiles five bodies in different geographic regions that vary in the
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Household social consumption in India: Health NSS 75th round (July, 2017 – June, 2018)
The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has conducted the survey on Household Social Consumption related to Health during the period July 2017 to June
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Karnataka to introduce Rotavirus vaccine in Universal Immunisation Programme
Rotavirus causes severe diarrhoea and death among children under the age of five. Targeting universal immunisation, the Health Department is all set to introduce Rotavirus vaccine (RVV) as part of the
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Vaccination rate for Australian children hits record high: data
Data released by the Australian government for the first quarter this year on Sunday revealed that 94.78 percent of all Australian five-year-olds have been immunized, up from 94.67 percent in the last