Immunizations: Situation and Trends

Vaccination is one of the interventions that contribute strongly to the reduction of child mortality, through decrease of the incidence of preventable diseases. The MICS data for 2008 show some progress in the coverage of vaccination of children of less than one year of age against the main preventable diseases:

BCG 87%
DPT-3 dose 71%
Polio-3 dose 70%
Measles 64%.

Nationally set goal to show the vaccination coverage is that 95% of the 1-year-old children would be immunized against measles by 2015.

The disparities between rural and urban areas are evident: only 54.8% of the 12-23 month-old children in the rural areas received all vaccines against about 74% of the children living in urban areas.
The MICS data for 2008 show that Maputo City and Maputo Province had the highest coverage for all vaccines while Tete Province had the lowest coverage of the country for the total package of vaccinations, with a coverage of 34.2%.
The families’ wealth quintile appears to have a positive correlation with the coverage of the vaccination of 12-23 month-old children.

Source: Report on the Millennium Development Goals - Mozambique 2010

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