Healthcare workers in the Civil Disobedience Movement check children for signs of COVID-19 in Kayah State’s Demoso Township on October 17, 2021. (AFP)

Vaccine vacuum afflicts children in Myanmar’s conflict zones

Major international organisations have obeyed the military’s ban on working with parallel health services, leading to glaring disparities in childhood vaccinations that experts warn could endanger the entire country as well as the wider region.

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