Does support to Private Health Practitioners increase childhood vaccination coverage? Findings from a comparative study in Afghanistan

CONCLUSION: Our study shows that PHPs in remote and conflict affected locations in Afghanistan can play an important role to increase childhood vaccination coverage. Expanding this program to comparable provinces in Afghanistan and to other countries struggling with insecurity and weak public health systems may save much childhood morbidity and mortality.PMID:34325933 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.07.018

Source: Vaccine - July 30, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Martijn Vink Nawaraj Upadhaya Hazrat Amin Amin Mohammad Gul Liwal Abdul Majeed Siddiqui Mohammad Naseem Aziza Syawash Maarten Schim van der Loeff Source Type: research