Table 4.
Reaching the target population (in-school and out-of-school girls)— Health worker and school personnel responses for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine program community awareness, feasibility, and acceptability surveys, Tanzania, October–November 2019.
| In-school girls | Health Workers N = 165 | School Personnel N = 135 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | (%) | n | (%) | |
| What percentage of 14-year-old girls in your community are in school? (excluding the Kilimanjaro region; health workers, n = 129; school personnel, n = 112) | ||||
| >80 | 51 | (39) | 35 | (31) |
| 50–80 | 49 | (38) | 39 | (35) |
| 30–50 | 19 | (15) | 22 | (20) |
| <30 | 6 | (5) | 15 | (13) |
| Don’t know | 4 | (3) | 1 | (1) |
| What percentage of 9-year-old girls in your community are in school? (Kilimanjaro region only; health workers, n = 36; school personnel, n = 23) | ||||
| >80 | 19 | (53) | 13 | (57) |
| 50 to 80 | 8 | (22) | 4 | (17) |
| 30 to 50 | 5 | (14) | 3 | (13) |
| <30 | 1 | (3) | 3 | (13) |
| Don’t know | 3 | (8) | 0 | (0) |
| If an eligible girl who usually attends school is absent on the day of vaccination, what do you do when she returns to school? 1 | ||||
| Let the girl know that she can be vaccinated at the school when health workers return to vaccinate again | 25 | (19) | ||
| Tell the girl to visit the community outreach or community mobile outreach to be vaccinated | 13 | (10) | ||
| Tell the girl to visit a health facility to be vaccinated | – | – | 68 | (50) |
| Do nothing | – | – | 10 | (7) |
| Has not encountered this situation | – | – | 11 | (8) |
| Other | – | – | 8 | (6) |
| Out-of-school girls | ||||
| How do you identify out-of-school girls? 2 | ||||
| Utilizing village health volunteers | 53 | (32) | – | – |
| Utilizing community leaders (e.g. village heads, councilmen, religious leaders) | 75 | (45) | – | – |
| Health facility listing of girls | 2 | (1) | – | – |
| Utilizing parents or guardians | 25 | (15) | – | – |
| Utilizing school personnel or school records | 3 | (2) | – | – |
| Approaching girls directly | 10 | (6) | – | – |
| Other | 17 | (10) | – | – |
| No special efforts made to identify out-of-school girls | 28 | (17) | – | – |
| Do you know of girls in your community that are eligible for HPV vaccination but do not attend school? 1 | ||||
| Yes | – | – | 58 | (43) |
| No | – | – | 77 | (57) |
| What do you do in the case of girls that are eligible for HPV vaccine but do not attend school, n = 58? 1,3 | ||||
| Tell the girl to visit the school on the vaccination day to be vaccinated | – | – | 2 | (3) |
| Tell the girl to visit a community outreach or mobile site to be vaccinated | – | – | 3 | (5) |
| Tell the girl to visit a health facility to be vaccinated | – | – | 19 | (33) |
| Do nothing | – | – | 23 | (40) |
| Other, specify | – | – | 11 | (19) |
1
Question not asked of health workers.
2
Multiple responses allowed; Question not asked of school personnel.
3
Only asked of school personnel that reported knowing out-of-school girls in their community eligible for HPV vaccination that do not attend school (n = 58).