Micro-planning for immunization in Kaduna State, Nigeria: Lessons learnt, 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The OPV 3 coverage for Kaduna State, 12-23 months old children was 34.4%. The low OPV 3 coverage, due mainly to weak demand for routine antigens and the need to rapidly boost population immunity against the disabling Wild Polio Virus (WPV), led the Global Polio Eradication Initiatives (GPEI) to increase supplemental OPV campaigns in Kaduna State, despite the huge cost and great burden on personnel. The OPV campaigns, especially in high risk (low vaccine uptake, <80% OPV 3 coverage and high vaccines refusal rate) states of northern Nigeria with poliovirus transmission has resulted in overestimated denominators or target population, as the highest ever vaccinated is used to set OPV campaign targets.

Methods

We utilized a cross-sectional study that assessed the impac

SUBMITTER: Umeh GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238078 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature