Measles Vaccination Supports Millennium Development Goal 4: Increasing Coverage and Increasing Child Survival in Northern Ghana, 1996–2012

Measles Vaccination Supports Millennium Development Goal 4: Increasing Coverage and Increasing Child Survival in Northern Ghana, 1996–2012

BackgroundMeasles vaccine (MV) administered as the last vaccine after the third dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) may be associated with better child survival unrelated to prevention of measles infection. Other studies have shown that MV administered after DTP was more beneficial and was as...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paul Welaga, Abraham Hodgson, Cornelius Debpuur, Peter Aaby, Fred Binka, Daniel Azongo, Abraham Oduro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
measles vaccine
measles
vaccination
non-specific effects of vaccines
child survival
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00028/full

Internet

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00028/full

Similar Items