Anna Deal, Alison F Crawshaw, Maha Salloum, Sally E Hayward, Jessica Carter, Felicity Knights, Farah Seedat, Oumnia Bouaddi, Nuria Sanchez-Clemente, Laura Muzinga Lutumba, Lusau Mimi Kitoko, Sarah Nkembi, Caroline Hickey, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Azeem Majeed, Sally Hargreaves
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization's (WHO) Immunization Agenda 2030 emphasises ensuring equitable access to vaccination across the life course. This includes placing an emphasis on migrant populations who may have missed key childhood vaccines, doses, and boosters due to disrupted healthcare systems and the migration process, or differing vaccination schedules in home countries. Guidelines exist in the UK for offering catch-up vaccinations to adolscent and adult migrants with incomplete or uncertain vaccination status (including MMR, Td-IPV, MenACWY, HPV), but emerging evidence suggests awareness and implementation in primary care is poor...
April 16, 2024: Vaccine