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About 20.6% of Ethiopian children aged 12–35 months were zero-dose for the first pentavalent dose, ranging from 0.8% in Addis Ababa to 35.9% in Somali.
- Why it matters: Zero-dose beyond infancy can leave children unprotected and highlights where routine and catch-up vaccination may miss those who need the first dose.
- What they did: Using Pathways for Ethiopia survey data from 2,097 children (Aug–Nov 2025), the study estimated weighted prevalence and used survey-weighted logistic regression with marginal standardization to compute adjusted prevalence ratios, plus spatial clustering and kriging.
- The result: Zero-dose was 20.4% at ages 12–23 months and 20.8% at 24–35 months, was linked to no antenatal care (aPR 2.39), unimproved drinking-water (aPR 1.52), and lower caregiver vaccination importance (aPR 2.68), and showed significant spatial clustering (Moran’s I = 0.229; p = 0.0001).
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