Children who have received no routine polio vaccines in Nigeria: Who are they and where do they live?
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Date
2017
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Abstract
2016; putting an end to 2 y without reported cases. We examined the extent of geographical disparities in
childhren not vaccinated against polio and examined individual- and community-level predictors of nonvaccination
in Nigeria. We applied multilevel logistic regression models to the recent Nigeria Demographic
and Health Survey. The percentage of children not routinely vaccinated against polio in Nigeria varied
greatly and clustered geographically, mainly in north-eastern states, with a great risk of spread of
transmission within these states and potential exportation to neighboring states and countries. Only
about one-third had received all recommended 4 routine oral polio vaccine doses. Non-vaccinated
children tended to have a mother who had no formal education and who was currently not working, live
in poorer households and were from neighborhoods with higher maternal illiteracy rates.
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Children, Polio vaccines
Citation
Olalekan A. Uthman , Sulaimon T. Adedokun, Tawa Olukade, Samuel Watson, Olatunji Adetokunboh, Adeyinka Adeniran, Solomon A. Oyetoyan, Saheed Gidado, Stephen Lawoko & Charles S. Wiysonge (2017): Children who have received no routine polio vaccines in Nigeria: Who are they and where do they live?, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2017.1336590