What led to the Nigerian boycott of the polio vaccination campaign?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 417-422

  Jegede, Ayodele Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NIGERIA; POLIOMYELITIS; VACCINATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; LEGAL ASPECT; POLITICS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SAFETY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; ISLAM; NIGERIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; POLITICS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SAFETY; VACCINATION;

EID: 33947624258     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040073     Document Type: Article

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