الفهرس 
Maternal and neonatal tetanus
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Abstract
Background: Tetanus is an acute fatal disease characterized by
generalized rigidity and convulsive spasms of skeletal muscles. There
is no natural immunity against tetanus; protection can be provided by
active immunization with tetanus toxoid vaccine or administration of
an anti-tetanus antibody. Maintaining maternal and neonatal
elimination status in Egypt will require continued strengthening of
routine tetanus toxoid immunization services that target pregnant
women, routine immunization of children, clean delivery services in
all districts and to identify the main reasons for bad performance.
Objective:To measure frequency rate of tetanus toxoid vaccination
among women attending well baby clinic to vaccinate their infants or
to follow up at El-Darb El-Ahmar PHC center at Cairo governorate
and to identify different associated factors affecting this rate.
Subjects and methods: This study was a cross sectional study
targeting (277) mothers at childbearing period attending the well
baby clinic at El-Darb El-Ahmar PHC center. Mothers were
interviewed to answer a questionnaire which included the s ociodemographiccharacteristics of the woman, obstetric history, details of
the last pregnancy and knowledge about maternal and neonatal
tetanus disease.
Results: The results indicated that more than sixty percent of the
studied mothers (60.6%) were vaccinated with at least one dose of
tetanus toxoid vaccination and only (42.6%) of the studied mothers
were fully protected against maternal and neonatal tetanus at their
last birth.
Factors found to be associated with the rate of vaccination were:
socioeconomic level, educational level, place of receiving ANC,
receiving HE about TT vaccine, knowledge of women about NT
disease and TT vaccine and the source of this knowledge.
Conclusion: The percentage of protection at last birth against MNT
is low among women at child bearing period and certain
interventions should be taken toward the modified factors to increase
the tetanus toxoid coverage.
Keywords: tetanus toxoid, vaccination, women health.