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Strengthening screening for infectious diseases and vaccination
                among migrants in Europe: What is needed to close the
                implementation gaps?

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Migration to the European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) affects the epidemiology of infectious
diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), HIV, hepatitis B/C, and parasitic diseases. Some sub-populations of migrants
are also considered to be an under-immunised group and thus at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. Providing
high-risk migrants access to timely and efficacious screening and vaccination, and understanding how best to
implement more integrated screening and vaccination programmes into European health systems ensuring linkage
to care and treatment, is key to improving the health of migrants and their communities, alongside meeting national and regional targets for infection surveillance, control, and elimination. The European Centre for Disease
Prevention and Control (ECDC) has responded to calls to action to improve migrant health and strengthen universal
health coverage by developing evidence-based guidance for policy makers, public health experts, and front-line
healthcare professionals on how to approach screening and vaccination in newly arrived migrants within the
EU/EEA. In this Commentary, we provide a perspective towards developing efficacious screening and vaccination
of newly arrived migrants, with a focus on defining implementation challenges and evidence gaps in high-migrant
receiving EU/EEA countries. There is a need now to leverage the increasing momentum around migrant health to
both strengthen the evidence-base and to advocate for universal access to health care for all migrants in the EU/
EEA, including undocumented migrants. This should include voluntary, confidential, and non-stigmatising
screening and vaccination that should be free of charge and facilitate linkage to appropriate care and treatment.

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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020, vol. 39

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Strengthening screening for infectious diseases and vaccination
                among migrants in Europe: What is needed to close the
                implementation gaps?