Table 5. Timeliness of vaccine doses administered to surveyed children with documented vaccination history by vaccine: Chad and Malawi, 2015.
| Vaccine dose | Chad | Malawi | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total number of children who received dose | Timeliness1 | Total number of children who received dose | Timeliness1 | |||||
| Too early (%) | Timely (%) | Not timely (%) | Too early (%) | Timely (%) | Not timely (%) | |||
| Birth dose | ||||||||
| BCG2 | 213 | -- | 74 | 25 | 420 | -- | 83 | 17 |
| OPV3 | 170 | -- | 54 | 46 | 306 | -- | 84 | 15 |
| First dose | ||||||||
| Pentavalent vaccine4 | 149 | 14 | 55 | 31 | 373 | 9 | 52 | 39 |
| OPV3 | 159 | 11 | 57 | 32 | 379 | 8 | 49 | 42 |
| PCV5 | -- | -- | — | -- | 374 | 9 | 52 | 39 |
| Rotavirus vaccine | -- | -- | — | -- | 374 | 9 | 51 | 40 |
| Second dose | ||||||||
| Pentavalent vaccine3 | 97 | 10 | 38 | 52 | 333 | 6 | 36 | 58 |
| OPV4 | 99 | 8 | 37 | 55 | 333 | 8 | 32 | 61 |
| PCV5 | -- | -- | — | -- | 330 | 7 | 35 | 59 |
| Rotavirus vaccine | -- | -- | — | -- | 326 | 5 | 37 | 58 |
| Third dose | ||||||||
| Pentavalent vaccine3 | 62 | 15 | 23 | 63 | 289 | 5 | 24 | 72 |
| OPV4 | 60 | 10 | 25 | 65 | 280 | 7 | 20 | 73 |
| PCV5 | -- | -- | — | -- | 275 | 5 | 24 | 70 |
| Measles vaccine | 39 | 28 | 69 | 3 | 157 | 15 | 78 | 7 |
1Please see Fig 3 for cut-offs and Chad and Malawi Expanded Programme on Immunization schedules used for this analysis
2 bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine
3 Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-hepatitis B-Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine (pentavalent)
4 Oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV)