Addressing Immunity Gaps: Strengthening Vaccine Confidence and Coverage
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Vaccines and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 552
Special Issue Editors
2. National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty (NIHMP), 00153 Rome, Italy
Interests: public health; infectious disease; healthcare management; risk management; migrants
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2. National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty (NIHMP), 00153 Rome, Italy
Interests: public health; infectious disease; healthcare management; risk management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is a well-known fact that vaccines remain on the most powerful tools against infectious diseases in public health.
However, the scientific community is also aware of the presence of immunity gaps, which vary in size depending on the country taken into consideration. This is of particular relevance as in April 2025, both the WHO and UNICEF warned that immunization efforts are under growing threat, leaving millions of children, adolescents and adults at risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. For instance, in 2024, 14.3 million children worldwide missed out on any vaccination—so-called zero-dose children.
Therefore, strategies to inspire our communities to reduce those immunity gaps need to be implemented. Moreover, it is necessary to align the activities of national and global stakeholders towards achieving a better level of global immunization.
As misinformation is undeniably one of the main reasons for this threat to widespread vaccination, and correct information may be the key to swaying the stakeholders, this Special Issue aims to update the scientific community as a whole on the global status of vaccines and immunization in this new year.
To achieve this goal, all types of papers and reviews that hit that specific target are more than welcome.
Dr. Christian Napoli
Dr. Lavinia Bianco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vaccines
- immunization
- infectious diseases
- acceptance
- advocacy
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