{"655330":{"#nid":"655330","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What Happens to Childhood Vaccine Rates in Conflict Zones? This Analysis Found Some Surprises.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/olga-shemyakina\u0022\u003EOlga Shemyakina\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Economics\u003C\/a\u003E, co-wrote the article, \u0026quot;What Happens to Childhood Vaccine Rates in Conflict Zones? This Analysis Found Some Surprises.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;It\u0026nbsp;was published on February 3, 2022, in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article discusses the effect of armed conflict on immunization rates for children between one\u0026nbsp;and five\u0026nbsp;years old in 15 African countries south of the Sahara.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur research identified at least four ways that armed conflict negatively affects vaccine supply. First, conflicts often divert government resources toward the war effort, rather than health care. Here\u0026rsquo;s an example: In conflict-affected South Sudan, allocations to the security and public administration sectors amounted to nearly two-thirds of the 2017-2018 national budget. Only 5 percent of the budget went to social sectors, including health, education and humanitarian affairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35926","created_gmt":"2022-02-09 14:19:24","changed_gmt":"2022-02-09 18:57:44","author":"schurchman3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/03\/what-happens-childhood-vaccine-rates-conflict-zones-this-analysis-found-some-surprises\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"655331":{"id":"655331","type":"image","title":"Olga Shemyakina","body":null,"created":"1644416447","gmt_created":"2022-02-09 14:20:47","changed":"1644416447","gmt_changed":"2022-02-09 14:20:47","alt":"","file":{"fid":"248452","name":"olga.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/olga.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/olga.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17099,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/olga.jpeg?itok=iLn04b5f"}}},"media_ids":["655331"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}