The report, entitled “Ensuring the integration of refugees and migrants into immunization policies, planning and service delivery globally” – the third report of the WHO Global Evidence Review on Health and Migration (GEHM) series – noted that under-immunisation is still common among refugees and migrants, due to the negative impact of migration and displacement on the ability and motivation to immunise.
The report mentioned three key areas of WHO policy that aim to support countries that integrate migrants and refugees into their national immunisation plans:
The first is to ensure universal and equitable access to vaccines for all refugees and migrants, regardless of their status, age and gender, through inclusive immunisation policies, communication strategies, engagement and community participation.
The second is to strengthen health systems to provide catch-up immunization in mobile populations throughout their lives to fill existing immunization gaps, and to ensure adequate resources for these activities by increasing national vaccine capacity.
The third is to strengthen data collection to monitor immunization coverage and service delivery gaps in refugee and migrant populations by providing financial support for national data collection and analysis, establishing immunization information systems to collect immunization coverage data, and conducting robust large-scale studies to identify factors that contribute to under-vaccination and vaccine hesitancy.
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