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Table 4 Vaccine wastage comparing rural and urban health districts

From: A retrospective review of vaccine wastage and associated risk factors in the Littoral region of Cameroon during 2016–2017

Vaccinesa

2016

2017

Urban

Rural

χ2b

p value

Urban

Rural

χ2

p value

Children vaccinated

Doses used

Wastage

Children vaccinated

Doses used

Wastage

  

Children vaccinated

Doses used

Wastage

Children vaccinated

Doses used

Wastage

  

BCG

76,912

108,017

28.80%

11,129

20,216

44.95%

410.93

< 0.0001

74,408

107,754

30.95%

10,548

19,138

44.88%

300.01

< 0.0001

OPV

298,562

307,052

2.77%

48,521

53,186

8.77%

88.29

< 0.0001

285,696

298,535

4.30%

41,880

45,698

8.35%

35.58

< 0.0001

IPV

72,580

86,051

15.65%

11,616

16,278

28.64%

161.70

< 0.0001

64,471

77,052

16.33%

8989

12,569

28.48%

112.35

< 0.0001

PENTA

221,968

225,482

1.56%

37,309

40,065

6.88%

50.81

< 0.0001

209,745

218,045

3.81%

31,417

35,662

11.90%

111.64

< 0.0001

PCV

221,762

214,541

−3.37%

37,317

36,601

−1.96%

2.97

0.0851*

211,082

202,505

−4.24%

31,560

30,543

−3.33%

1.02

0.3127*

ROTA

144,832

141,803

−2.14%

24,003

23,423

−2.48%

0.11

0.7411*

140,414

138,329

−1.51%

21,216

21,407

0.89%

5.26

0.0215

MR

70,388

84,489

16.69%

11,254

15,563

27.69%

111.85

< 0.0001

57,970

70,639

17.93%

8563

12,351

30.67%

124.12

< 0.0001

YF

70,287

83,874

16.20%

11,236

15,515

27.58%

118.60

< 0.0001

63,354

76,170

16.83%

9088

12,974

29.95%

136.62

< 0.0001

Total

1,177,291

1,251,309

5.92%

192,385

220,847

12.89%

521.30

< 0.0001

1,107,140

1,189,029

6.89%

163,261

190,342

14.23%

513.93

< 0.0001

  1. * Statistically insignificant
  2. a Vaccines: BCG bacillus Calmette-Guérin, OPV oral polio vaccine, IPV inactivated polio vaccine, PENTA pentavalent vaccine: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT), hepatitis B (HepB) and Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) vaccines, PCV pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, ROTA rotavirus vaccine, MR measles and rubella vaccine, YF yellow fever vaccine
  3. b χ2 refers to the chi-square test which brings out statistical differences between number of children vaccinated and doses of vaccines used between urban and rural setting