Vaccination in the war in Ukraine
A year into the Russia invasion of Ukraine, vaccination—both routine and for covid-19—is one of the casualties. Nataliia Bushkovska meets the doctors trying increase uptake In Ukraine, vaccination has always been challenging. In 2016, the country had the lowest routine immunisation rate in the world, according to Unicef.1 Data from the country’s ministry of health showed that just 44% of children under 18 months of age were fully immunised against polio. Only 30% of children up to the age of 6 were fully immunised against measles, 10% against hepatitis B, and 3% against diphtheria, pertu...
Source: bmj.com