{"doi":"10.1093/ofid/ofaf400","title":"Increasing Birth-Dose Hepatitis B Vaccination in Nigeria: Qualitative Analysis of Data From a Crowdsourcing Open Call","abstract":"Background: Despite World Health Organization and Nigerian recommendations for hepatitis B birth-dose (HepB-BD) vaccination, only one-third of Nigerian newborns receive timely HepB-BD vaccination, This study identified facilitators to increasing HepB-BD vaccination based on data from a crowdsourcing open call in Nigeria. Methods: Our team conducted an open call across Nigeria for teams to submit ideas on how to increase HepB-BD vaccination. Independent judges evaluated the submissions based on predefined criteria. We analyzed textual data from the top 29 entries using iterative coding and thematic analysis within a socioecological model to identify priority facilitators. Results: The open call received 362 total submissions, and 58.5% (215/362) of submissions were from women. Analysis of the top 29 submissions revealed 6 priority facilitators for increasing HepB-BD vaccination: (1) engage religious and healthcare leaders to educate pregnant women; (2) strengthen national policies for vaccination support and tracking; (3) counter misconceptions to promote attitude and behavior changes; (4) utilize rural infrastructure like town halls and radio programs to disseminate information; (5) translate educational materials into local languages like pidgin; and (6) organize financial or social incentives. Conclusions: Our crowdsourcing open call identified key facilitators and strategies for increasing HepB-BD vaccination among Nigerian newborns. The findings from this study can inform HepB-BD initiatives in Nigeria and other low- and middle-income countries.","journal":"Open Forum Infectious Diseases","year":2025,"id":569917,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9431,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1474991,"name":"Rayna Haque","orcid":"0009-0001-6784-2291","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1248724,"name":"Abdulhammed Opeyemi Babatunde","orcid":"0000-0002-3648-5340","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1081629,"name":"Folahanmi Tomiwa Akinsolu","orcid":"0000-0002-6782-9820","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1474992,"name":"Maria Afadapa","orcid":"0000-0002-1547-989X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1475382,"name":"Nkiruka Obodoechina","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1474993,"name":"Joseph Ogbeh","orcid":"0009-0001-7074-3788","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1086021,"name":"Olufunto A. 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