Success of community approach to HPV vaccination in school-based and non-school-based settings in Haiti.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the success of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program among adolescent girls aged 9-14 years in Haiti and to understand predictors of completion of a two-dose HPV vaccination series.

Methods

Data collection was conducted during HPV vaccination campaigns in Port-au-Prince between August 2016 and April 2017. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were used to examine characteristics associated with vaccination series completion of school based and non-school based vaccination delivery modalities.

Results

Of the 2,445 adolescent girls who participated in the awareness program, 1,994 participants (1,307 in non-school program, 687 in school program) received the first dose of the vaccine; 1,199 (92%) in the non-school program a

SUBMITTER: Riviere C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8224934 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature