Vaccine coverage, timeliness and delay estimated from regional and national cross-sectional surveys in Ethiopia, 2016.

Introduction: measures of vaccine timing require data on vaccination dates, which may be unavailable. This study compares estimates of vaccine coverage and timing; and compares regression techniques that model these measures in the presence of incomplete data.

Methods: this cross-sectional study used the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), and a 2016 survey from Worabe, Ethiopia.

Childhood Immunization in Ethiopia: Accuracy of Maternal Recall Compared to Vaccination Cards.

Health surveys conducted in low- and middle-income countries typically estimate childhood vaccination status based on written vaccination cards, maternal recall (when cards are not available), or a combination of both. This analysis aimed to assess the accuracy of maternal recall of a child's vaccination status in Ethiopia. Data came from a 2016 cross-sectional study conducted in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' (SNNP) Region of Ethiopia.

Vaccine hesitancy among caregivers and association with childhood vaccination timeliness in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Introduction: Vaccines are vital to reducing childhood mortality, and prevent an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths annually which disproportionately occur in the developing world. Overall vaccine coverage is typically used as a metric to evaluate the adequacy of vaccine program performance, though it does not account for untimely administration, which may unnecessarily prolong children's susceptibility to disease. This study explored a hypothesized positive association between increasing vaccine hesitancy and untimeliness of immunizations administered under the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Predictors and Barriers to Full Vaccination among Children in Ethiopia.

Predictors of immunization status outside of large cities in Ethiopia are not well known, and Muslims have lower vaccination coverage. The aim of this study is to assess factors associated with full immunization among children 12-23 months in Worabe, Ethiopia, a Muslim-majority community. A cross-sectional study is conducted in summer 2016.