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"Zero Dose" Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: How Many and Who Are They?
Article in Vaccines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- Measles epidemic in Yakusu Health Zone, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018-2019: a retrospective observational study.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Observational
- Zero-dose vaccination status among children in Malawi: patterns, predictors, and geographic hotspots.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Large language models for analyzing open text in global health surveys: why children are not accessing vaccine services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.International health · 2025Article
- Inequalities in full immunization coverage among one-year-olds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007-2017.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Exploring perceptions and attitudes towards vaccines in a remote western DRC health zone.Vaccine: X · 2025Article
- Determinants of vaccination coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic among children aged 12-23 months in southern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Mapping zero-dose children in Kenya - A spatial analysis and examination of the socio-demographic and media exposure determinants.PloS one · 2025Article
- Mpox Clade I outbreak and the first European case ex Africa, in Sweden - A call for global health equity.New microbes and new infections · 2024Article
- Characterizing zero-dose and under-vaccinated children among refugees and internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2024Article
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- Clade Ib: a new emerging threat in the Mpox outbreak.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Geospatial and multilevel clustering of zero-dose children in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2022.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Reasons for Being "Zero-Dose and Under-Vaccinated" among Children Aged 12-23 Months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Vaccines · 2023Article
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Abstract
(1) Background: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the countries with the highest number of never vaccinated or "zero-dose" (ZD) children in the world. This study was conducted to examine the proportion of ZD children and associated factors in the DRC. (2) Methods: Child and household data from a provincial-level vaccination coverage survey conducted between November 2021-February 2021 and 2022 were used. ZD was defined as a child aged 12 to 23 months who had not received any dose of pentavalent (diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-
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