Household costs of seeking BCG vaccination in rural Guinea-Bissau.
BCG vaccination
Household cost
Vaccination cost
Journal
Vaccine
ISSN: 1873-2518
Titre abrégé: Vaccine
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8406899
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 09 2019
03 09 2019
Historique:
received:
01
02
2019
revised:
26
07
2019
accepted:
02
08
2019
pubmed:
14
8
2019
medline:
23
9
2020
entrez:
14
8
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In Guinea-Bissau, a vial of BCG vaccine is often not opened unless 10 infants are present for vaccination, with the aim of reducing vaccine wastage. This causes delays in vaccination, as previously demonstrated in Guinea-Bissau and other low-income countries. Reducing wastage of BCG vaccine to save money may deprive infants of important health benefits and transfer costs from the vaccination programme to mothers. Using the Bandim Health Project's rural Health and Demographic Surveillance System, we interviewed mothers of infants aged 1-11 months about household costs of seeking BCG vaccination. On average mothers took their infant for BCG vaccination 1.26 times before obtaining the vaccine. For mothers who had sought BCG vaccine for their infants the average cost was 1.89 USD for each BCG-vaccinated infant. Among BCG-unvaccinated infants at the time of interview, 42% had brought their infant for BCG vaccination in vain at an average cost of 2.83 USD.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31405635
pii: S0264-410X(19)31041-2
doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.08.004
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
BCG Vaccine
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
5505-5508Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Ltd.