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Yellow fever vaccination coverage heterogeneities in Luanda province, Angola
Maimuna S MajumderPress enter key to Email the author
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Colleen M Nguyen
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Sumiko R Mekaru
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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