Table 3.
Reason for non-vaccination for serogroup A meningococcal (PsA-TT) conjugate vaccine and measles-containing vaccine (MCV) by age group.
| Reason for non-vaccination | PsA-TT
|
MCV
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2–5 years
|
6–15 years
|
16–30 years
|
12–23 months
|
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Not informed | 67 | 49.3 | 94 | 43.3 | 174 | 41.2 | 42 | 36.5 |
| Subject or guardian absent | 22 | 16.2 | 51 | 23.5 | 73 | 17.3 | 15 | 13.0 |
| No vaccine available | 12 | 8.8 | 25 | 11.5 | 26 | 6.2 | 3 | 2.6 |
| Vaccination site unknown | 2 | 1.5 | 10 | 4.6 | 24 | 5.7 | 3 | 2.6 |
| Vaccinator absent | 6 | 4.4 | 14 | 6.5 | 5 | 1.2 | 2 | 1.7 |
| Vaccination hours inconvenient | 2 | 1.3 | 4 | 1.8 | 23 | 5.5 | 4 | 3.5 |
| Pregnant at time of vaccination campaign (PsA-TT only) | – | – | 0 | 0 | 31 | 7.3 | – | – |
| Fear of injections | 2 | 1.5 | 2 | 0.9 | 13 | 3.1 | 1 | 0.9 |
| Ill at time of vaccination | 5 | 3.7 | 5 | 2.3 | 11 | 2.6 | 4 | 3.5 |
| Wait too long at vaccination site | 3 | 2.2 | 4 | 1.8 | 12 | 2.8 | 3 | 2.6 |
| Vaccination site too far away | 1 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.5 | 9 | 7.8 |
| Was told that child was too young to receive vaccine | 9 | 6.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7.8 |
| Confused with other vaccines (believed to already have been vaccinated) | 1 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.6 | 8 | 7.0 |
| Fear of side effects | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.9 |
| Othera | 3 | 2.2 | 7 | 3.2 | 19 | 4.5 | 11 | 9.6 |
| Total | 136 | 100.0 | 217 | 100.0 | 422 | 100.0 | 115 | 100.0 |
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Other includes: lack of confidence in the vaccine, religious beliefs, not authorized by head of household, and unspecified ‘other’.