This is particularly important in Uganda where a child receives nine vaccine doses for complete vaccination and there are plans to introduce other vaccines such as the pneumococcal vaccine. Īs more ambitious goals for immunisation and disease control are set in response to the declaration of the decade of vaccines such as introduction of established and new vaccines mainly in developing countries, pressures to meet short-term goals need to be balanced with substantial efforts to establish and sustain strong health systems for vaccine delivery, surveillance, and monitoring.
Vaccination of children could therefore prevent more than 2 million child deaths each year thus increasing child survival with its attendant economic gains.
Vaccine preventable diseases account for about a quarter of the 8 million deaths occurring annually among children under five years of age especially in low-income countries such as Uganda. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. 185777 (GlobVac programme: The programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research) funded by the Research Council of Norway. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: This study was part of the mVAC project NFR no. Received: JanuAccepted: MaPublished: April 23, 2012Ĭopyright: © 2012 Babirye et al. Ellis, Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, United States of America (2012) Timeliness of Childhood Vaccinations in Kampala Uganda: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study. Citation: Babirye JN, Engebretsen IMS, Makumbi F, Fadnes LT, Wamani H, Tylleskar T, et al.
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