Sentence examples for lowest immunization coverage from inspiring English sources

One of the poorest areas in the Philippines, the Autonomous Region also has the lowest immunization coverage, and is affected by an ongoing armed conflict.

Cuevas is responsible for organizing and coordinating the nationwide campaign in Haiti, which has the lowest immunization coverage in the Western hemisphere.

We selected Kita Circle because it had the lowest rates of immunization coverage in a region that, itself, had the lowest immunization coverage in the country.

In addition, poorest households have the lowest immunization coverage at 72.2 per cent, while that rises to more than 87 per cent coverage in households of other wealth categories.

Nyanza and Western provinces account for the lowest immunization coverage in Kenya with only 64.6 percent of under-one year olds in Nyanza fully immunized and 73.1 percent in Western province.

The accelerated routine immunization campaign against ten preventable contagious diseases, including measles, tetanus and polio, is targeting 150,000 children under 5 years of age in localities with the lowest immunization coverage and in informal tented settlements, regardless of the children's nationality.

The markedly low immunization coverage rates may affect herd immunity, and they would greatly increase those children's susceptibility to vaccine preventable diseases.

Further, the risk of infectious disease (e.g., cholera, measles, malaria, meningitis) has increased because of the combination of malnutrition (weakened immune system), inadequate health care systems, low immunization coverage, lack of clean water, and poor sanitation (Zarocostas 2011).

We also found, as reported in the population level survey, low immunization coverage, low levels of antenatal care and family planning, and little utilization of dental care services despite the fact that these services were available in the health facilities.

"The virus is the kind of virus that finds vulnerable populations," he said, "and the combination of vulnerability and low immunization coverage, that is a time bomb.

"Complacency about the disease and the spread of falsehoods about the vaccine in Europe, a collapsing health system in Venezuela and pockets of fragility and low immunization coverage in Africa are combining to bring about a global resurgence of measles after years of progress," he said.