Missed opportunities and inappropriately given vaccines reduce immunisation coverage in facilities that serve slum areas of Nairobi

PK Borus - East African medical journal, 2004 - ajol.info
Objectives: To quantify missed opportunities for immunisation, document reasons for their
occurrence and evaluate the extent of inappropriately given vaccine doses. Design: A cross …

Factors influencing immunisation coverage in Mathare Valley, Nairobi

LO Owino, G Irimu, J Olenja, JS Meme - East African medical journal, 2009 - ajol.info
Results: Access to immunisation services was excellent at 95.6%. However, utilisation of
immunisation services was found to be suboptimal as indicated by the low fully immunised …

Missed opportunities and caretaker constraints to childhood vaccination in rural areas of Uganda

F Tugumisirize, JK Tumwine, EA Mworoza - East African medical journal, 2002 - ajol.info
Background: Despite concerted support to vaccination programmes, coverage remains low.
While health service reasons for this are known, there is little information on caretaker …

Comparing static and outreach immunization strategies and associated factors in Uganda, Nov-Dec 2016

F Nsubuga, SN Kabwama, I Ampeire, H Luzze… - Pan African Medical …, 2019 - ajol.info
Introduction: the government of Uganda aims at reducing childhood morbidity through
provision of immunization services. We compared the proportion of children 12-33 months …

[PDF][PDF] Determinants of immunization coverage among children in Mathare Valley, Nairobi

N Kamau, FO Esamai - East African medical journal, 2001 - ajol.info
Objective: To establish the factors that determine the levels of immunisation coverage
among children under five years in Mathare Valley. Design: A cross-sectional study …

Missed opportunities for vaccination in health facilities in Swaziland

AD Daly, MP Nxumalo, RJ Biellik - South African Medical Journal, 2003 - ajol.info
Objectives. To determine whether potential exists to increase vaccination coverage in
Swaziland by reducing missed opportunities. Design. The standard World Health …

Immunization coverage and its determinants among children aged 12-23 months in a peri-urban area of Kenya

LC Maina, S Karanja, J Kombich - Pan African Medical Journal, 2013 - ajol.info
Introduction: The institutionalization of strong immunization services over recent years has
ensured that today more than 70% of the worlds' targeted population is reached. In Kenya …

Determinants of immunisation coverage in Butere-Mumias district, Kenya

RM Omutanyi, MA Mwanthi - East African Medical Journal, 2005 - ajol.info
Background: Butere-Mumias district is one of the districts which performs poorly on
immunisation coverage, as observed from the Kenya Expanded Programme of Immunisation …

Missed vaccination opportunities at a secondary health facility in Ilorin, Nigeria

RM Ibraheem, AO Bello, MAN Adeboye… - Journal of Community …, 2016 - ajol.info
Background: Immunization remains a key strategy in the control of childhood diseases, with
a child expected to have five visits according to the current National Programme on …

A mass campaign too often? Results of a vaccination coverage survey in the Dikgale-Soekmekaar district

C Van Turennout, J Vandelanotte… - South African Medical …, 2003 - ajol.info
Objectives. To determine the routine and mass immunisation coverage in children aged
between 12 and 23 months in the Dikgale-Soekmekaar district, Northern Province, South …