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

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Lam E., Diaz M., Maina A.G., et al.

Full Citation:

Lam E., Diaz M., Maina A.G., et al. 2016. Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases. Conflict and Health. 10(27).

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Additional key concepts from this publication:

Conflict and migration can lead to disease outbreaks in diseases previously controlled or eliminated and jeopardize disease control efforts.

Key Evidence: The ongoing conflict in Syria has caused the breakdown of immunization services, leading to outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases in the region and the re-emergence of polio in Syria for the first time in 15 years. The potential for polio to re-emerge in neighboring areas with low coverage of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) threatens the success of global efforts to eradicate polio.