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Trial reportNature2024

Last-mile delivery increases vaccine uptake in Sierra Leone.

Niccolò F Meriggi, Maarten Voors, Madison Levine, Vasudha Ramakrishna, Desmond Maada Kangbai, Michael Rozelle, Ella Tyler, Sellu Kallon, Junisa Nabieu, Sarah Cundy and 1 more

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Last mile at the center of immunization delivery.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Niccolò F MeriggiInternational Growth Centre, Freetown, Sierra Leone. niccolo.meriggi@economics.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-6757-1284
Maarten VoorsWageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5907-3253
Madison LevineUniversity of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.
Vasudha RamakrishnaBoston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Desmond Maada KangbaiMinistry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Michael RozelleWageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Ella TylerWageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Sellu KallonWageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Junisa NabieuWageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Sarah CundyConcern Worldwide, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Ahmed Mushfiq MobarakYale University and Y-RISE, New Haven, CT, USA. ahmed.mobarak@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1916-3438

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Less than 30% of people in Africa received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine even 18 months after vaccine development

Indexed as

Community Health ServicesCOVID-19 VaccinesMass VaccinationMobile Health UnitsRural Health ServicesVaccination CoverageAdultChildCOVID-19FemaleHumansMothersSierra LeoneTransportationVaccination HesitancyCOVID-19 Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID38480877
PMCPMC10954551

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