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    Factors contributing to low immunization coverage in Kakoba Division - Mbarara Municipality, Mbarara District
    (Kampala International University School of Health Sciences (Western Campus), 2017-04) Kiconco, Evas
    Immunization is one of the major public health interventions to avoid childhood illnesses and mortality. Globally, there are 30 million children who are not routinely immunized every year and 1.5 million children under five years of age die each year from vaccine preventable diseases.The purpose of the study was to establish factors contributing to low immunization coverage in Kakoba Division - Mbarara Municipality, Mbarara District. Crosssectional and descriptive study which employed aquantitative approach of data collection was used and the study was conducted at Kakoba Health Centre III in Kakoba Division. The researcher used convenient sampling method to select samples. Only 65 parents/caretakers with children who attended Maternal Child Health at Kakoba Health Centre III in Kakoba Division. The findings showed that a majority 29 (45%) of the participants said there are others factors like poor mobilization, postponing dates and few health workers which hinders immunization services while a few 4 (6%) sail low knowledge of the health workers. majority 56 (86%) of the participants said fear of the side effects of the vaccine because it make the child sick compared to only 1 (2%) who had no response, 52 (80%) of the participants revealed that lack of awareness by care givers may result to low immunization service utilization while only 4 (6%) were not sure of that. Factors like poor mobilization, postponing dates, fear of side effects of the vaccine and lack of awareness by caregivers contribute to low immunization coverage.