NCT06470919

The Next Generation Vaccine Card: Innovative Technology to Improve Vaccine Equity in Rural and Urban Settings in East Africa

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,522 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Day – 24 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The research team of investigators from University of Michigan and the African Population and Health Research Center will implement and evaluate a newly-developed digital vaccine card and accompanying mobile application and electronic immunization registry. This will take place in rural Uganda and urban Kenya Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) and the study team will analyze its feasibility, impacts, cost through process, and economic evaluations. The study team will also assess the data quality and equity of the digital vaccine registry and card system.

Detailed description

This study design has three parts or aims for this project, however, only the third aim is considered to be the trial portion and is included in this registration.

Conditions

• Vaccines

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	SMS reminders for upcoming vaccination(s)	All parents/caregivers of children in participating villages will receive access to a digital vaccine card. This will be used for record-keeping application (digital vaccine registry). Selected parents/caregivers of children will receive SMS messages and reminders related to vaccination.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-06
• Primary completion: 2025-10-29
• Completion: 2025-10-29
• First posted: 2024-06-24
• Last updated: 2025-12-03

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: Kenya, Uganda