Assessing COVID-19 seroprevalence and vaccine uptake among women of reproductive-age in Zanzibar's archipelago.

ABSTRACT: Recent events in public health globally have created a need for response by public health researchers in all disciplines to evaluate impact on health, morbidity and mortality of the COVID-19 pandemic that has engulfed the world after 100 years of previous influenza pandemic. Most of the immediate responses, globally; have focused on diagnosis and management of severe cases. However, for evolution of policies dealing with population health in the post COVID-19 era, community-based data for rates of morbidity, risk factors of illness and severity and outcomes of influenza like illness in Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) is needed to inform evidence-based policy. This pilot project aimed to collect preliminary data on seroprevalence from the two island populations of Tanzania. The p

SUBMITTER: Manji K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12233267 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature