Vaccine Preventable Disease Seroprevalence in a Nationwide Assessment of Timor-Leste (VASINA-TL): study protocol for a population-representative cross-sectional serosurvey.
Paul ArkellSarah L SheridanNelson MartinsMaria Y TanesiNelia GomesSalvador AmaralTessa OakleyVanessa SolanoMichael DavidAnthony D K DraperNevio SarmentoEndang da SilvaLucsendar AlvesCarlito FreitasFilipe de Neri MachadoCelia GusmãoIsmael da Costa BarretoNicholas S S FancourtKristine MacartneyJennifer YanJoshua Reginald FrancisPublished in: BMJ open (2023)
Ethical approval has been obtained from the Research Ethics and Technical Committee of the Instituto Nacional da Saúde, Timor-Leste and the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Northern Territory Department of Health and Menzies School of Health Research, Australia. Co-designing this study with Timor-Leste's Ministry-of-Health and other relevant partner organisations will allow immediate translation of findings into public health policy, which may include changes to routine immunisation service delivery and/or plans for supplementary immunisation activities.
Keyphrases
- public health
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- induced pluripotent stem cells
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- human immunodeficiency virus
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