Measles in Democratic Republic of Congo: an outbreak description from Katanga, 2010–2011

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Table 1 Measles vaccine coverage and their confidence interval (CI) of different immunization opportunities, by card confirmation and oral history, Katanga province, DRC, 2011

Health district	Health zone	Type¹	Study population	Number of children included	EPI²coverage [CI 95%]	SIA³coverage [CI 95%]	ORI⁴coverage [CI 95%]
Likasi	Kikula, Likasi and Panda	Urban	6 months - 14 years	4244	91.5% [89.1 - 93.5]	82.6% [77.6 - 86.6]	99.3% [98.9 - 99.6]
Lubumbashi	All the11 health zones of the district	Urban	6 months - 14 years	6622	91.4% [89.5 - 92.9]	89.1% [85.2 - 92.0]	98.1% [97.3 - 98.6]
Likasi	Kapolowe	Rural	6 months - 14 years	1056	83.1% [74.0 - 89.4]	81.8% [70.4 - 89.4]	97.0% [88.0 - 99.3]
Likasi	Kambove	Rural	6 months - 14 years	1223	80.0% [69.8 – 87.3]	68.2% [49.4 - 82.5]	94.7% [81.8 - 98.6]
Haut-Katanga	Kasenga	Rural	6 months - 14 years	2199	86.0% [80.4 - 90.2]	85.5% [80.4 - 89.5]	93.8% [91.0 - 95.7]
Haut-Lomami	Malemba-Nkulu	Rural	6 months - 9 years	1722	81.2% [76.4 - 85.3]	77.3% [70.6 - 82.9]	81.1% [76.5 - 84.9]
Haut-Katanga	Kipushi	Rural	6 months - 14 years	1545	92.8% [90.3 - 94.7]	84.5% [78.0 - 89.4]	97.2% [95.7 - 98.2]

¹ An area was defined as urban if it included a statutory city (in DRC, all provincial capital plus 21 cities are considered as statutory).
² Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) = routine vaccination activities in health facilities for children aged 9 to 11 months.
³ Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIA) were non-selective mass vaccination campaigns targeting children aged 6 to 59 months.
⁴ Outbreak Response Immunizations (ORI) were reactive mass vaccination campaigns targeting children aged 6 months to 14 (or 9) years.

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