Background Routine immunization coverage in Nigeria has remained low, and studies have identified a lack of accountability as a barrier to high performance in the immunization system. Accountability lies at the heart of various health systems strengthening efforts recently launched in Nigeria, including those related to immunization. Our aim was to understand the views of health officials on th...

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background immunization is an essential issue in primary health care, which has a tremendous impact on infection prevention. objectives this study aimed to determine the immunization status of health care personnel (hcp) and adult patients admitted at teaching hospitals. conclusions the low rate of immunization warrants implementation of novel protocols in adults as well as implying on educatio...

background: immunization campaign is one of the most effective acts for improving community health, yet under immunized groups, leave communities at risk for vaccine -preventable diseases. the objective of the present study is to assess status of immunization for children under 2 years old in shahriar, iran. methods: this research is a cross- sectional study. cluster sampling was used to select...

introduction: tetanus is a serious infectious disease and the most common cause of neonatal mortality in developing countries. although neonatal tetanus (nt) can be prevented by immunization of expectant mothers, good hygiene and asepsis during delivery, total eradication of organism is not possible. methods: the cross-sectional study was done on 480 pregnant women after delivery. data was coll...

background: recurrent spontaneous abortion (rsa) is defined as three or more se-quential abortions before the twentieth week of gestation. there are evidences to sup-port an allo-immunologic mechanism for rsa. one of the methods for treatment of rsa is leukocyte therapy; however there is still controversy about effectiveness of this method. objectives: to evaluate the effectiveness of leukocyte...

objective(s): an efficient vaccine against tb is an urgent need. tb peptides are safe candidate but they are weak immunogens and needs to be potentiated by adjuvant/delivery systems. the main purpose of the present study was to determine the potential of cht based nps containing esat-6 antigen of m. tuberculosis for inducing mucosal and systemic immune responses after intranasal and subcutaneou...