Trends of measles in Tanzania: a five-year review of case-based surveillance data, 2018-2022
Vaccines provide a safe and cost-effective solution to vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. However, vaccine-preventable infectious diseases still pose a serious public health threat especially in the world's poor regions[1]. In sub-Saharan Africa, this burden is further aggravated by the occurrence of concurrent epidemics such as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Ebola virus disease, monkeypox, and measles overstretching the already weak public health system[2]. In addition to human conflicts, natural disasters, vaccine hesitancy, and the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine immunisation services leaving millions of children under-vaccinated or unvaccinated against vaccine-preventable diseases as evidenced by the decline in the number of administered doses of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus-containing vaccine and the first dose of measles virus-containing vaccine[3, 4].
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Fausta Michael, Mariam M. Mirambo, Gerald Misinzo, Omary Minzi, Medard Beyanga, Delphinus Mujuni, Florence S Kalabamu, Elias N Nyanda, Mary Mwanyika-Sando, Daniel Ndiyo, Richard Kasonogo, Abbas Ismail, Andrew Bahati, Farida Hassan, Elangiringa Kaale, John Source Type: research
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