Tara Mangal and colleagues document the struggle to eliminate polio in northern Nigeria. However, they overlook the importance of routine immunisation to polio eradication eff orts. The investigators identified an association between the risk of contracting polio and oral polio vaccine unavailability. Systemic problems with routine immunisation distribution, supply chain, and staffi ng result i...

OBJECTIVE To examine changes in immunisation performance in Grampian region after the introduction of the 1990 contract for general practitioners. DESIGN Retrospective descriptive study using data held on the Grampian immunisation record system's computer. SETTING All 95 general practices in Grampian region (313 general practitioners). PATIENTS All children in the primary immunisation and...

BACKGROUND Reduction in the prevalence of vaccine type HPV infection in young women is an early indication of the impact of the HPV immunisation programme and a necessary outcome if the subsequent impact on cervical cancer is to be realised. METHODS Residual vulva-vaginal swab (VVS) specimens from young women aged 16-24 years undergoing chlamydia screening in community sexual health services ...

The children immunisation programme in Greenland correlates to the one in Denmark with the addition of the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-vaccine and the immunisation against Hepatitis B (HBV). The immunisation rate among children in Greenland has been and is currently unknown and this study aims to estimate the immunisation rates among children in Nuuk from 1 July 2015 until 30 June 2016. We di...

This study was carried out to assess the immunisation status among health care workers of a tertiary hospital and reasons for non-immunisation. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at Jinnah Hospital, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore from May 2005 – July 2005. A total of 358 health care workers were selected using systematic random sampling technique. A pre-tested structure...

Few subjects in child health have caused so much uncertainty and controversy in recent years as whooping-cough immunisation, its benefits and its dangers. A set of reports' from the Committee on the Safety of Medicines and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) give the best information so far on this difficult subject, and provide definite answers to at least some of the qu...