Assessing Vaccination Delivery Strategies for Zero-Dose and Under-Immunized Children in the Fragile Context of Somalia

• Published in: Vaccines (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 2; p. 154
• Main Authors: Bile, Ahmed Said, Ali-Salad, Mohamed A, Mahmoud, Amina J, Singh, Neha S, Abdelmagid, Nada, Sabahelzain, Majdi M, Checchi, Francesco, Mounier-Jack, Sandra, Nor, Barni
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.02.2024; MDPI
• Subjects: Access control; At risk populations; Caregivers; Children; Coasts; Community; Community planning; conflict; Context; crisis; Data analysis; Data collection; Displaced persons; Focus groups; fragility; Health aspects; Health facilities; Heterogeneity; Humanitarianism; Immunization; International Health; Internationell hälsa; Local communities; Methods; Militancy; Population; Populations; populations at risk; Qualitative research; Researchers; Tetanus; Urban poverty; Vaccination; Vaccines; Whooping cough; zero-dose children; Somalia; Indian Ocean; Ethiopia; crisis; fragility; populations at risk; conflict; vaccination; zero-dose children

Somalia is one of 20 countries in the world with the highest numbers of zero-dose children. This study aims to identify who and where zero-dose and under-vaccinated children are and what the existing vaccine delivery strategies to reach zero-dose children in Somalia are. This qualitative study was c...