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Beyond constructs and principles: addressing gender-related barriers to high, equitable immunization coverage

Frontiers in Global Women's Health
The global immunization community has only recently recognized that addressing gender-related barriers to vaccination is critical to improving equity and increasing protection against vaccine-preventable diseases.
Willow Gerber, Rebecca Fields, Neide Guesela, Khadijah A. Ibrahim Nuhu, Eugene Manika   +4 more
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Routine Childhood Immunization: Its health, developmental, economic and social benefits [PDF]

, 2023
Introduction: Immunization plays a pivotal role in public health. It is one of the most cost-effective inventions that have helped bring down a significant amount of burden of diseases among under-five children, some of which are now on the verge of ...
Chawale, Shubham Vivekanand, Mishra, Pallavi, Vijayan, Sruthi Madathiparambil, Sangma, Risa Vernette Nengminza, Rasania, Sanjeev Kumar   +4 more
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The role of public health networks in strengthening public health systems: the case of EMPHNET in the Eastern Mediterranean region

Frontiers in Public Health
The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) faces a range of complex public health challenges, including endemic diseases, recurrent outbreaks, and weak health systems exacerbated by political instability and humanitarian crises. Public health networks play a
Yousef Khader, Dana Shalabi, Leen Daoud, Deema Al Bakri, Rana AlHamawi, Randa K. Saad, Sayed Himatt, Zeina Abdel Majeed, Ruba Kamal Alsouri, Nada Ahmed, Rabi Assaf, Nadine Haddad, Sardar Parwiz, Majd A. Alsoukhni, Haitham Bashier, Magid Al-Gunaid, Mohannad Al Nsour   +16 more
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Factors affecting access to information on routine immunization among mothers of under 5 children in Kaduna State Nigeria, 2015

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
INTRODUCTION: immunization is one of the most effective interventions to prevent disease and early child death. A substantial number of children worldwide do not complete immunization schedules because neither health services nor conventional ...
Lydia Taiwo, Suleiman Idris, Aisha Abubakar, Patrick Nguku, Peter Nsubuga, Saheed Gidado, Lilian Okeke, Samuel Emiasegen, Endie Waziri   +8 more
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From strategy development to routine implementation: the cost of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants for malaria control. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND\ud \ud Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for health requires a massive scaling-up of interventions in Sub Saharan Africa. Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants (IPTi) is a promising new tool for malaria control.
Alonso, Pedro, Manzi Fatuma, Schellenberg, David, Hutton Guy, Manzi, Fatuma, David Schellenberg, Tanner Marcel, Schellenberg David, Alonso Pedro, Marcel Tanner, Fatuma Manzi, Hassan Mshinda, Mshinda Hassan, Schellenberg, Joanna, Schellenberg Joanna, Pedro Alonso, Hutton, Guy, Joanna Schellenberg, Mshinda, Hassan, Tanner, Marcel, Guy Hutton   +20 more
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The availability and functionality of medical equipment and the barriers to their use at comprehensive specialized hospitals in the Amhara region, Ethiopia

Frontiers in Health Services
BackgroundPublic healthcare practices, particularly disease prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients, heavily rely on the availability and functionality of medical equipment.
Alem Endeshaw Woldeyohanins, Nigatu Mihretu Molla, Abibo Wondie Mekonen, Abrham Wondimu   +3 more
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Survey of contraindications in children's routine vaccination in Hangzhou, China

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017
Objective To describe the epidemiological characteristics of contraindications in children routine vaccination, to evaluate vaccination doctors’ ability to determine contraindications.
Shijun Liu, Jun Wang, Yan Liu, Yuyang Xu, Xinren Che, Wenwen Gu, Jian Du, Xiaoping Zhang, Erping Xu   +8 more
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Communication strategies to promote the uptake of childhood vaccination in Nigeria: a systematic map [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Effective communication is a critical component in ensuring that children are fully vaccinated. Although numerous communication interventions have been proposed and implemented in various parts of Nigeria, the range of communication ...
Kaufman, Jessica, Lewin, Simon, Cliff, Julie, Oyo-Ita, Angela, Muloliwa, Artur, Jessica Kaufman, Gabriel Rada, Oku, Afiong, Yuri Cartier, Rada, Gabriel, Angela Oyo-Ita, Cartier, Yuri, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Fretheim, Atle, Claire Glenton, Atle Fretheim, Sophie Hill, Julie Cliff, Ames, Heather, Hill, Sophie, Simon Lewin, Artur Muloliwa, Afiong Oku, Heather Ames, Bosch-Capblanch, Xavier, Glenton, Claire   +25 more
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Tracking the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine infant vaccinations in the Dominican Republic

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, millions of infants are unprotected against immune-preventable diseases due to interruptions in vaccination services.
Manuel Colomé-Hidalgo, Juan Donado Campos, Ángel Gil de Miguel   +2 more
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Development of behaviour change communication strategy for a vaccination-linked malaria control tool in southern Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND\ud \ud Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) using sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and linked to the expanded programme on immunization (EPI) is a promising strategy for malaria control in young children.
Mponda, Haji, Schellenberg, David, Pool, Robert, Haji Mponda, Manzi, Fatuma, Mbuya Conrad, Mponda Haji, Conrad Mbuya, Schellenberg David, Alonso Pedro, Adiel AdielK Mushi, Marcel Tanner, Fatuma Manzi, Hassan Mshinda, Adiel K Mushi, Mshinda Hassan, Schellenberg, Joanna, Mrisho, Mwifadhi, Mushi Adiel K, Schellenberg Joanna, Pedro Alonso, Joanna Schellenberg, Mushi, Adiel K, Mshinda, Hassan, Tanner, Marcel, Alonso, Pedro, Mrisho Mwifadhi, Manzi Fatuma, Mwifadhi Mrisho, David Schellenberg, Tanner Marcel, Mbuya, Conrad, Pool Robert, Robert Pool   +33 more
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