tailieunhanh - A SURVEY OF DISEASE PREVALENCE AND IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE AMONG CHILDREN OF AGES 0-5 YEARS IN INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPS IN LAFIA, NIGERIA

The issue of intervention of the internally displaced person should, as a matter of importance, be reconsidered by the united Nation. This is in view of the fact that the united Nation High commission for Refuges (UNHCR) only extends protection or assistance to idps when the UN secretary general or the UN general assembly has requested the agency to do so. The idps indeed fall between the cracks of current humanitarian law and assistance, unlike the refugees who are solely the burden of UNHCR. The role of the national refuges commission of. | A SURVEY OF DISEASE PREVALENCE AND IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE AMONG CHILDREN OF AGES 0-5 YEARS IN INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPS IN LAFIA NIGERIA. AUTHORS EGBERE A KADIR T2 OYERO S. K3 HENRY AND OGBONNA 1Department of Microbiology University of Jos Nigeria. 2 Department of Chemical Pathology college of Health Technology Zawan Nigeria. Department of Histopathology Jos University Teaching Hospital Nigeria. 4Federal college of Forestry. Jos Nigeria. 5Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology University of Jos Nigeria. ABSTRACT A survey of the disease prevalence and immunization coverage among children of age 0-5 years was carried out in Dunama and shinge camp of the internally displaced persons from the shendam Yelwa crisis of 2004 after due approval from the Nassarawa state government. Structure questionnaire were issued to mothers of the children for their response. Relevant health records of the children were also obtained from Nassarawa state ministry of the Health. The disease among the children surveyed within the period of their camping were malaria 44 diarrhea cough catarrh fever and measles in order of their prevalence with malaria being the most prevalent and persistent followed by diarrhoea. The total number of the internally displaced persons vaccinated was 24 818 with 1 357 children vaccinated with calmette-Guerine BCG 5 124 with measles vaccine 4 115 with Oral Polio vaccine OPV and 2 227 with Diptheria Pertusis Tetanus vaccine DPT . Persons adults and children vaccinated with Anti- Tetanus Toxoid ATT vaccine were 3379 while 8616 persons received Bacile cerebrospinal meningitis vaccine CSM . it could be concluded from this study that the prevalent rates for malaria and diarrhea were particularly higher than the values reported from the normal population of Nigeria by UNICEF while the data on immunization intervention by the state Government tends to imply that the coverage was .