ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2018
Trend of vaccine preventable diseases in Iraq in time of conflict.
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- Between war and pestilence: the impact of armed conflicts on vaccination efforts: a review of literature.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Pneumococcal Disease: Global Disease Prevention Strategies with a Focus on the Challenges in Iraq.International journal of general medicine · 2023Review
- Incidence of Pertussis in Anbar Province, West of Iraq, during 2009-2019.Archives of Razi Institute · 2021Article
- COVID-19 in conflict region: the arab levant response.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Bordetella pertussis in School-Age Children, Adolescents, and Adults: A Systematic Review of Epidemiology, Burden, and Mortality in the Middle East.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2021Review
- Association Between Subnational Vaccine Coverage, Migration, and Incident Cases of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella in Iraq, 2001-2016.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Estimating the Transmissibility of Mumps: A Modelling Study in Wuhan City, China.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Potential implications for weak health systems and conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa region.The International journal of health planning and management · 2020Article
- Paediatric COVID-19 Infection in Iraq: Is it not prevalent or underestimated?Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionIraq has passed through a series of successive conflicts, economic sanction and violence. The overall health sector in Iraq has been plunged and the services are facing a continuous shortage in vaccines, medicines and other supplies, and access of people to the basic health services being more impaired. The objective of this study was to portray the trend of vaccine preventable diseases in Iraq during the past 17 years to provide baseline information for disease burden estimation.
methodsThis study was built on collection and treatment of morbidity data related to vaccine preventable diseases (tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and hepatitis B) that were registered by the Department of Health Statistics during the years (2000-2016). The incidence rates were plotted on a timeline to define the trend of each disease. Data were also categorized by gender and age groups (less than five years, 5 to 15 years and 15 years and more).
resultsDiphtheria, rubella, and tuberculosis showed a slowly down going trend of incidence while mumps demonstrated a peak at 2016. Hepatitis B showed an up going trend of incidence while measles showed a secular trend every 4-5 years.
conclusionVaccine preventable diseases are still causing outbreaks; precipitated by fluctuation of vaccine coverage. Tuberculosis has been reemerged after a relatively long period of control.
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