Intensification of integrated immunization services to recover routine vaccination coverage and bring COVID-19 vaccine to the population of Iraq in 2022.

Introduction: COVID-19 seriously impacted routine immunization (RI) in Iraq. Coverage declined to a 6-year low in 2021, and COVID-19 vaccination uptake was slow. In response, government implemented intensification of integrated immunization services (3IS), a nationwide approach comprising regular outreach sessions of COVID-19 vaccination and RI for children who had either missed doses or never commenced scheduled vaccination (zero-dose children).

Costs of childhood vaccine delivery in Iraq: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: In recent years, Iraq has expanded and revised the childhood immunisation schedule, but estimates of the costs of the programme are unavailable. The objective of this study was to estimate the economic costs of delivering childhood vaccines in Iraq from a government perspective.

Setting: Health facilities were sampled using multistage probabilistic sampling and stratifying the country into three regions: Central and South, North/Kurdistan Region, and Retaken Areas.

Prevalence, Incidence, Trend, and Complications of Thalassemia in Iraq.

Globally, thalassemia is the most common hereditary hemoglobinopathy, and occurs in 4.4/10,000 live births. In the developing world, the majority of patients die before the age of 20 years.