SynthesisHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2025
Prevalence of missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) indicators among children aged 12-23 months in sub-Saharan African countries: An individual-level meta-analysis of DHS and MICS national household data surveys.
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- Vaccination Coverage Quality Indicators (VCQI): a flexible open-source tool for survey data analysis.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2026Article
- Strategic positioning of immunization at the heart of Africa's health and development agenda.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
- Factors Associated with Missed Opportunities for Vaccination in Children During the First Year of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study.Vaccines · 2025Article
- Influencing factors on missed opportunities for vaccination among children aged 0-24 months in hospitals of White Nile State, Sudan: a mixed method study.The Pan African medical journal · 2025Article
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Abstract
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the greatest proportion of under-vaccinated children. The aim of this study was to plot missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) indicators in SSA, including crude prevalence, all corrected, uncorrected, and some corrected MOVs in children aged 12-23 months. This is an individual-level meta-analysis of MOV indicators of routine immunization in children aged 12-23 months in SSA, using national household data from the DHS and MICS. The meta-analysis included 23,557 out of 39,465 children aged 12-23 months. We estimated a pooled crude MOV prevalence of 34% [24%-43%]. We also estimated the plotted prevalences of all corrected, uncorrected, and some corrected MOVs to be 14% [11%-18%], 15% [6%-24%], and 5% [3%-7%], respectively. Child- and visit-based MOVs by type of vaccine varied consistently across the SSA. Our results also revealed that suppressing MOVs will enable the SSA to achieve vaccination coverage levels exceeding 90%.
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