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Yellow fever vaccination coverage heterogeneities in Luanda province, Angola

Wednesday, 7th of September 2016 Print

Yellow fever vaccination coverage heterogeneities in Luanda province, Angola

Maimuna S MajumderPress enter key to Email the author

Colleen M Nguyen

Sumiko R Mekaru

John S Brownstein

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30260-2

 

Summary below; full text is at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(16)30260-2/fulltext

 

 

 

Although the latest yellow fever outbreak appears to be approaching a close, nearly 2000 suspected and confirmed cases have been reported in Angola since December, 2015.1 Aggressive vaccination campaigns, coordinated by the Angolan Ministry of Health (MOH) and WHO in the highly affected Luanda province, have been crucial to outbreak mitigation; as of April 10, 2016, 5·9 million (90%) individuals of the province-level target population (6·6 million) were reported to have been vaccinated.1

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