Improving vaccine equity: Addressing barriers and building capacity to improve vaccine uptake

Vaccination remains one of the most essential and cost-effective tools available to ensure population health and wellbeing.  As a cornerstone of primary and preventive health care, vaccines have been directly responsible for saving millions of lives.

However, vaccination programmes face enduring challenges, namely inequalities in vaccine access and vaccine hesitancy.

Vaccine inequalities are avoidable differences in immunisation coverage between population groups that arise because vaccine barriers among disadvantaged groups are not addressed through policies, structures, governance or programme implementation.

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