Table No.5
Immunisation in Zanzibar (2002 – 2005)
2002
2003
2004
2005
TB
104%
121%
128.0%
126%
Polio
39.1%
42.3%
51%
53%
DT P3
73.6%
82.2%
89.0%
86.0%
Measles
77.%
92.0%
90.0%
93.0%
Polio 3
75.4%
75.6%
88.0%
85.0%
TTZ+
73.3%
70.4%
73.0%
67.0%
Source: EP I (ZMoS), 2006
Malaria - The Government strongly endorses insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and has
introduced the Tanzania National Vouchers Scheme to provide discount vouchers to all
pregnant women attending antenatal clinics and so accelerate the use of treated nets by
pregnant women and young children. The proportion of households owning bed nets has
increased from around 25 per cent in 1999, to 46 per cent in 2004.
Approximately 31
per cent of children under five sleep under a mosquito net, though only about 16 per cent
of those are insecticide-treated. Some of the poor and the most vulnerable children cannot
afford ITNs despite the discount vouchers.
Zanzibar is considered a high malaria – transmission area Around 50% of the children
will have had the first malaria episode before reaching their first birthday (Based on
expert opinion and Interpretation of combative frequency of serve malaria in Africa,
lance volume 367, 2006).
The prevalence of malaria in children under the age of five modestly declined from 41%
in 1991/92 to 23% in 2004/05. Children in Pemba seem to be at higher risk of getting
fever (38%), Compared to these located in Unguja (29%).
Prevalence of fever among under fives ranges between 32% in children from the richest
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