Children who have received no routine polio vaccines in Nigeria: Who are they and where do they live?

Children who have received no routine polio vaccines in Nigeria: Who are they and where do they live?

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Nigeria has made remarkable progress against polio, but 2 wild polio virus cases were reported in August 2016; putting an end to 2 y without reported cases.We examined the extent flexcon reverse osmosis water storage tank of geographical disparities in childhren not vaccinated against polio and examined individual- and community-level predictors of non-vaccination in Nigeria.We applied multilevel logistic regression models to the recent Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey.The percentage of children not routinely vaccinated against polio in Nigeria varied sombrero de los 2 carnales greatly and clustered geographically, mainly in north-eastern states, with a great risk of spread of transmission within these states and potential exportation to neighboring states and countries.Only about one-third had received all recommended 4 routine oral polio vaccine doses.

Non-vaccinated children tended to have a mother who had no formal education and who was currently not working, live in poorer households and were from neighborhoods with higher maternal illiteracy rates.