In rural Tanzania, babies who are the fifth or later child in their family are more likely to be late on their vaccines than the first child.

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Determinants of delayed or incomplete diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in parallel urban and rural birth cohorts of 30,956 infants in Tanzania

Cohort Study

Human

2019 Feb 26

The study found that in rural Tanzania, babies from poorer families with less educated parents and those born at home were less likely to get all their vaccines on time—conditions that often happen in big families with many children.

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Determinants of delayed or incomplete diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in parallel urban and rural birth cohorts of 30,956 infants in Tanzania

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DOI: 10.1186/s12879-019-3828-3

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