Table 5 Coverage and timeliness of hepatitis B immunization in children from each health division
Category | No. of children with the feature in each category/total no. of children (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Central | Western | Northern | Total | |
Coverage in terms of number of dose (s) received during hepatitis B immunization (total n = 439) | ||||
Three doses or more | 191/194 (98.5) | 173/173 (100.0) | 72/72 (100.0) | 436/439 (99.3) |
Only two doses | 3/194 (1.5) | 0/173 (0.0) | 0/72 (0.0) | 3/439 (0.7) |
Only one dose | 0/194 (0.0) | 0/173 (0.0) | 0/72 (0.0) | 0/439 (0.0) |
Timeliness of birth dose (total n = 439) | ||||
Within 2 days | 170/194 (87.6) | 156/173 (90.2) | 53/72 (73.6) | 379/439 (86.3) |
Day 3 – 10 | 16/194 (8.2) | 8/173 (4.6) | 17/72 (23.6) | 41/439 (9.3) |
Day 10 – 30 | 5/194 (2.6) | 5/173 (2.9) | 1/72 (1.4) | 11/439 (2.5) |
Never immunized | 3/194 (1.5) | 4/173 (2.3) | 1/72 (1.4) | 8/439 (1.8) |
Timeliness of completion of 3 doses of HBV in children < 2 years | ||||
(total n = 176) | ||||
On – schedule | 46/62 (74.2) | 50/79 (63.3) | 7/35 (20.0) | 103/176 (58.5) |
Delayed | 16/62 (25.8) | 29/79 (36.7) | 28/35 (80.0) | 73/176 (41.5) |