Stockholm, April 26, 2022 (dpa/NAN) The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) says the precise cause behind the recent wave of severe
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A real commitment from all stakeholders and policymakers is needed to support a catch-up immunisation campaign and overcome the difficulties routine vaccination programmes have experienced during the pandemic, according to a key vaccine stakeholder.
In an interview with EURACTIV, the new executive director of Vaccines Europe, Sibilia Quilici, said that while everyone is rightly focusing on the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination, there is also a concrete risk that other vaccination programmes might end up overlooked.
“Significant healthcare system resources are allocated to COVID-19 vaccination and little, if any, attention is given to routine immunisation to ensure continuity,” she said.
Routine national immunisation programmes are intended to protect the population against vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, human papillomavirus-related diseases and cancers, influenza or pneumococcal infections, to name but a few. Such programmes are widely recognised as one of the wor