ArticleVaccines2023
Why Reaching Zero-Dose Children Holds the Key to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Article in Vaccines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Approximating vaccine delivery costs to reach zero-dose children: a Bayesian meta-regression analysis.Health policy and planning · 2026Pooled it
- Progress in reaching zero-dose children: analysis of population-modifiable risk factors and inequity trends in low- and lower-middle-income countries.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Systematic Review of Pharmacist-Administered Paediatric Vaccinations in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries.Vaccines · 2026Review
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- Assessing Geographic Inequalities in Childhood Immunisation Coverage: A Critical Scoping Review of Spatial Analysis Methods.Vaccines · 2026Article
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- Gavi's Zero-Dose Learning Hubs: enhanced approach for evidence generation and use from local to global.Health policy and planning · 2026Article
- Estimating the impact of decreasing vaccination response times for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in low- and middle-income countries.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
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- Progress and gaps in childhood immunization among two-year-olds in Ghana (1993-2022): A trend and equity analysis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Barriers to and enablers of childhood immunization uptake in Ethiopia's Amhara, Oromia, and Somali Regions: A multi-perspective qualitative study.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Prevalence and its associated factors of zero-dose vaccination and barriers among children under the age of 2 years in Southwest Ethiopia: A mixed-method study.SAGE open medicine · 2026Article
- Zero-Dose Childhood Immunization in Conflict-Affected PSNP Districts of Ethiopia: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study.Gates open research · 2026Article
- Prevalence of zero-dose vaccination and its associated factors in urban areas of Somali region, Ethiopia: a mixed-methods approach.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Coverage and social and behavioural drivers of routine childhood immunisation in selected regions in the Philippines: a cross-sectional study.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of PHCU interventions and enhanced headcount to address zero dose and under-immunized children in pastoralist communities: experience from Afar and Somali regions, Ethiopia.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Decomposition of socioeconomic inequalities in zero-dose children aged 12-23 months in India.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The future impact of zero-dose children in inaccessible conflict-affected areas of Somalia: aligned with the immunization agenda 2030.Tropical medicine and health · 2025Article
- Variations in Routine Childhood Vaccination Gaps: A Decomposition Analysis Across 80 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Vaccines · 2025Article
- Gender Barriers to Immunization: A Synthesis of UNICEF's Analyses to Advance Equity and Coverage.Vaccines · 2025Review
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Abstract
Immunization has one of the highest coverage levels of any health intervention, yet there remain zero-dose children, defined as those who do not receive any routine immunizations. There were 18.2 million zero-dose children in 2021, and as they accounted for over 70% of all underimmunized children, reaching zero-dose children will be essential to meeting ambitious immunization coverage targets by 2030. While certain geographic locations, such as urban slum, remote rural, and conflict-affected settings, may place a child at higher risk of being zero-dose, zero-dose children are found in many places, and understanding the social, political, and economic barriers they face will be key to designing sustainable programs to reach them. This includes gender-related barriers to immunization and, in some countries, barriers related to ethnicity and religion, as well as the unique challenges associated with reaching nomadic, displaced, or migrant populations. Zero-dose children and their families face multiple deprivations related to wealth, education, water and sanitation, nutrition, and access to other health services, and they account for one-third of all child deaths in low- and middle-income countries. Reaching zero-dose children and missed communities is therefore critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals commitment to "leave no one behind".
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