The Next Generation Vaccine Card: Innovative Technology to Improve Vaccine Equity in Rural and Urban Settings in East Africa

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vaccines

Treatments: Other: SMS reminders for upcoming vaccination(s)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06470919

HUM00237101

Details and patient eligibility

About

The research team of investigators from University of Michigan and the African Population and Health Research Center will implement and evaluate a newly-developed digital vaccine card and accompanying mobile application and electronic immunization registry. This will take place in rural Uganda and urban Kenya Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) and the study team will analyze its feasibility, impacts, cost through process, and economic evaluations. The study team will also assess the data quality and equity of the digital vaccine registry and card system.

Full description

This study design has three parts or aims for this project, however, only the third aim is considered to be the trial portion and is included in this registration.

Enrollment: 3,522 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 24 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1 day to 24 months old

Exclusion criteria

• Sites not included in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3,522 participants in 2 patient groups

Next Generation digital vaccine card with SMS reminders for upcoming vaccination(s)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: SMS reminders for upcoming vaccination(s)

Pre-intervention cohort

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will be compared to the post-intervention group to assess the digital vaccine card.