Table 4. Vaccinees opinions of novel strategies for administering the second oral cholera vaccine dose, Lake Chilwa, Malawi, 2016.
Vaccinees opinion of strategy | No. of survey respondentsa (%) by administration strategy for second vaccine dose |
|
---|---|---|
Self-administration after a family member collected the vial from a vaccination site (islands) | Self-administration 2 weeks after receiving the vial during distribution of the first dose (zimboweras) | |
It was practical and convenient | 51 (94.4) | 124 (70.5) |
It was complicated | 0 (0.0) | 11 (6.2) |
Did not like it | 2 (3.7) | 6 (3.4) |
No response | 1 (1.9) | 35 (19.9) |
Total | 54 (100) | 176 (100) |
a Survey respondents lived in hard-to-reach areas, either on islands in Lake Chilwa or on zimboweras, which are temporary floating homes built for the fishing season.