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BCG vaccination in southern rural Mozambique: an overview of coverage and its determinants based on data from the demographic and health surveillance system in the district of Manhiça

Castro, elena marbán; Sacoor, charfudin; Nhacolo, ariel; Augusto, orvalho; Jamisse, edgar; Varela, elisa lópez; Casellas, aina; Aponte, john, j; Bassat, Quique; Sigauque, betuel; Macete, eusebio; Basteiro, alberto l, garcia.

BMC pediatr. (Online); 18 (1), 2018

Background: Over the past four decades, the World Health Organization established the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) to foster universal access to all relevant vaccines for all children at risk. The success of this program has been undeniable, but requires periodic monitoring to ensure that cov...

Vacina BCG, Estudos Transversais, Vigilância em Saúde Pública, Saúde da População Rural, Vigilância Sanitária, Vacinação em Massa, d0000738870, d0037100

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The performance of the expanded programme on immunization in a rural area of Mozambique

Vaccines are an effective public health measure. Vaccination coverage has improved in Africa in the last decades but has still not reached WHO/UNICEF target of at least 90% first-dose coverage for vaccines in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) implemented in Mozambique in 1979. There are concer...