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Correction: Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The Original Article was published on 11 June 2022

Correction: Int J Equity Health 21, 82 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01678-5

After publication of this article [1], the authors reported that

(1) In the Results section of the Abstract the penultimate sentence should have read “Additionally, we estimated that children whose mothers had no formal education were 27% (95%CI[16%,36%]) less likely to be fully vaccinated than those whose mother had primary level, or above, education.” instead of “Additionally, we estimated that children whose mothers had no formal education were 28% (95%CI[18%,47%]) less likely to be fully vaccinated than those whose mother had primary level, or above, education.”

(2) In the fourth paragraph of the Discussion section, the sentence “We estimated that children were 27% (95%CI [16%,36%]) more likely to be fully vaccinated if their mother had primary level education or above, compared to no education.” should have read “We estimated that children were 27% (95%CI [16%,36%]) less likely to be fully vaccinated if their mother had no formal education, compared to primary education or above.”

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  1. Ahmed Ali H, et al. Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Equity Health. 2022;21:82. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01678-5.

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Ahmed Ali, H., Hartner, AM., Echeverria-Londono, S. et al. Correction: Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Equity Health 21, 92 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01695-4

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