zero-dose

Adjective

1. Failing to receive any routine vaccination; having received no doses of a particular vaccine.
   • To do this, it is important to update existing estimates of the frequency of zero-dose children in countries with recent data. Next, there is a need to understand how children move out of the zero-dose group towards...
   • Before the vaccination campaign, 17.3% of children under 9 months were DTP zero-dose and 4.3% of children 9–60 months were measles zero-dose. - 2021 December 30, Rohan Arambepola, Yangyupei Yang, Kyle Hutchinson,...
   • Over a 24-year period in India, child zero-dose status was shaped by large-scale social inequalities and remained a consistent marker of generalised vulnerability. Interventions that address this cycle of...

   Hypernyms: unvaccinated