Correlates of Zero-Dose Vaccination Status among Children Aged 12-59 Months in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual and Contextual Factors.

ABSTRACT: Despite ongoing efforts to improve childhood vaccination coverage, including in hard-to-reach and hard-to-vaccinate communities, many children in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remain unvaccinated. Considering recent goals set by the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030), including reducing the number of zero-dose children by half, research that goes beyond coverage to identify populations and groups at greater risk of being unvaccinated is urgently needed. This is a pooled cross-sectional study of individual- and country-level data obtained from Demographic and Health Surveys Program and two open data repositories. The sample includes 43,131 children aged 12-59 months sampled between 2010 and 2020 in 33 SSA countries. Associations of zero-dose status with individual and contextual factors were asse

SUBMITTER: Ozigbu CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9322920 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature