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. 2022 Feb 3;22(1):221.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12475-0.

Who gets vaccinated in a measles-rubella campaign in Nepal?: results from a post-campaign coverage survey

M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday  1 , Dale A Rhoda  2 , Mona Lacoul  3 , Mary L Prier  2 , Jhalak Sharma Gautam  4 , Tara Nath Pokhrel  4 , Sameer Mani Dixit  5 , Rajesh Man Rajbhandari  5 , Anindya Sekhar Bose  6   3
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Who gets vaccinated in a measles-rubella campaign in Nepal?: results from a post-campaign coverage survey

M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday et al. BMC Public Health. .

Abstract

Background: Following the 2015 earthquake, a measles-rubella (MR) supplementary immunization activity (SIA), in four phases, was implemented in Nepal in 2015-2016. A post-campaign coverage survey (PCCS) was then conducted in 2017 to assess SIA performance and explore factors that were associated with vaccine uptake.

Methods: A household survey using stratified multi-stage probability sampling was conducted to assess coverage for a MR dose in the 2015-2016 SIA in Nepal. Logistic regression was then used to identify factors related to vaccine uptake.

Results: Eleven thousand two hundred fifty-three households, with 4870 eligible children provided information on vaccination during the 2015-2016 MR SIA. Overall coverage of measles-rubella vaccine was 84.7% (95% CI: 82.0-87.0), but varied between 77.5% (95% CI: 72.0, 82.2) in phase-3, of 21 districts vaccinated in Feb-Mar 2016, to 97.7% (CI: 95.4, 98.9) in phase-4, of the last seven mountainous districts vaccinated in Mar-Apr 2016. Coverage in rural areas was higher at 85.6% (CI: 81.9, 88.8) than in urban areas at 79.0% (CI: 75.5, 82.1). Of the 4223 children whose caregivers knew about the SIA, 96.5% received the MR dose and of the 647 children whose caregivers had not heard about the campaign, only 1.8% received the MR dose.

Conclusions: The coverage in the 2015-2016 MR SIA in Nepal varied by geographical region with rural areas achieving higher coverage than urban areas. The single most important predictor of vaccination was the caregiver being informed in advance about the vaccination campaign. Enhanced efforts on social mobilization for vaccination have been used in Nepal since this survey, notably for the most recent 2020 MR campaign.

Keywords: Immunization; Measles-rubella; Nepal; Vaccination campaign; Vaccination coverage survey.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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