TY - JOUR
TI - Immunisation of migrants in EWEEA countries: Policies and practices
AU - Giambi, Cristina
AU - Del Manso, Martina
AU - Marchetti, Giulia and
AU - Olsson, Kate
AU - Ali, Karam Adel
AU - Declich, Silvia
AU - Tiefengraber,
AU - Daniel
AU - Grammens, Tine
AU - Wyndham-Thomas, Chloe
AU - Neyts, Mie and
AU - Top, Geert
AU - Carrillo-Santisteve, Paloma
AU - Vladimirova, Nadezhda and
AU - Jordanova, Sonia
AU - Parmakova, Kremena
AU - Petrovic, Goranka and
AU - Vucina, Vesna Visekruna
AU - Koliou, Maria
AU - Castkova, Jitka and
AU - Knudsen, Lisbet Krause
AU - Valentiner-Branth, Palle
AU - Filippova, Irina
AU - and Tiittala, Paula
AU - Nohynek, Hanna
AU - Bouscaillou, Julie and
AU - Herida, Magid
AU - Levy-Bruhl, Daniel
AU - Wichmann, Ole
AU - Vygen-Bonnet,
AU - Sabine
AU - Georgakopoulou, Theano
AU - Panagiotopoulos, Takis and
AU - Stavrou, Theodora
AU - Molnar, Zsuzsanna
AU - Thorolfur, Gudnason and
AU - Cotter, Suzanne
AU - Clarke, Anna
AU - Fitzgerald, Margaret
AU - Iannazzo,
AU - Stefania
AU - Kantsone, Ieva
AU - Kupreviciene, Nerija
AU - Berthet,
AU - Francoise
AU - Weicherding, Pierre
AU - Melillo, Tanya
AU - Melillo, Jackie
AU - M.
AU - Veldhuijzen, Irene
AU - de Melker, Hester
AU - Bergsaker, Marianne
AU - A. Riise
AU - Paradowska-Stankiewicz, Iwona
AU - Cale, Etelvina and
AU - Valente, Paula
AU - Fernandes, Teresa
AU - Stanescu, Aurora
AU - Hudecova,
AU - Helena
AU - Bakoss, Ivan
AU - Vitek, Marta Grgic
AU - Limia, Aurora and
AU - Sanchez-Cambronero Cejudo, Laura
AU - Lindstrand, Ann
AU - Saliba, Vanessa
AU - and Crawshaw, Alison F.
AU - Ramsay, Mary
AU - Venice Survey Working Grp
JO - Vaccine
PY - 2019
VL - 37
TODO - 36
SP - 5439-5451
PB - Elsevier Sci Ltd, Exeter, United Kingdom
SN - 0264-410X
TODO - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.06.068
TODO - Migrants; Vaccination; Policy; Vaccine preventable diseases; Europe
TODO - In recent years various EU/EEA countries have experienced an influx of
migrants from low and middle income countries. In 2018, the “Vaccine
European New Integrated Collaboration Effort (VENICE)” survey group
conducted a survey among 30 EU/EEA countries to investigate immunisation
policies and practices targeting irregular migrants, refugees and asylum
seekers (later called “migrants” in this report). Twenty-nine
countries participated in the survey. Twenty-eight countries reported
having national policies targeting children/adolescent and adult
migrants, however vaccinations offered to adult migrants are limited to
specific conditions in seven countries. All the vaccinations included in
the National Immunisation Programme (NIP) are offered to
children/adolescents in 27/28 countries and to adults in 13/28
countries. In the 15 countries offering only certain vaccinations to
adults, priority is given to diphtheria-tetanus, measles-mumps-rubella
and polio vaccinations. Information about the vaccines given to
child/adolescent migrants is recorded in 22 countries and to adult
migrants in 19 countries with a large variation in recording methods
found across countries. Individual and aggregated data are reportedly
not shared with other centres/institutions in 13 and 15 countries,
respectively. Twenty countries reported not collecting data on
vaccination uptake among migrants; only three countries have these data
at the national level. Procedures to guarantee migrants’ access to
vaccinations at the community level are available in 13 countries. In
conclusion, although diversified, strategies for migrant vaccination are
in place in all countries except for one, and the strategies are
generally in line with international recommendations. Efforts are needed
to strengthen partnerships and implement initiatives across countries of
origin, transit and destination to develop and better share
documentation in order to guarantee a completion of vaccination series
and to avoid unnecessary re-vaccination. Development of migrant-friendly
strategies to facilitate migrants’ access to vaccination and collection
of vaccination uptake data among migrants is needed to meet existing
gaps. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
ER -