Background: Despite concerted support to vaccination programmes, coverage remains low.
While health service reasons for this are known, there is little information on caretaker …

Introduction: the government of Uganda aims at reducing childhood morbidity through
provision of immunization services. We compared the proportion of children 12-33 months …

Objectives. To determine whether potential exists to increase vaccination coverage in
Swaziland by reducing missed opportunities. Design. The standard World Health …

Background Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOVs), estimated to be about 32-47% of
child healthcare clinic visits in various settings globally, contribute to unfulfilled childhood …

Objectives: To quantify missed opportunities for immunisation, document reasons for their
occurrence and evaluate the extent of inappropriately given vaccine doses. Design: A cross …

Background Previous studies on vaccination coverage in developing countries focus on
individual-and community-level barriers to routine vaccination mostly in rural settings. This …

Methods Service Provision Assessments (SPA) of representative samples of health facilities
in four African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Malawi) in 2010-2015 were used to …

Mothers play an important role in immunization of their children. A target of 95%
immunization coverage is necessary for the sustained control of vaccine preventable …

Background In 2016, Kenya conducted a study of missed opportunities for vaccination
(MOV)—when eligible children have contact with the health system but are not fully …

Vaccination coverage and program in Nigeria has continued to suffer setback in spite of
various interventions. Vaccine hesitancy defined as a delay in the acceptance or refusal of …