The study was carried out to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice on immunization among care takers of children below five Years in Namuwongo. Many challenges were faced, including accessibility, language barrier as well as intimidation, bearing in mind that Namuwongo is an informal urban settlement, home to many people who are internally displaced persons (IDPs) from zones of violence in Uganda or refugees who fled from neighboring countries such as DR Congo and South Sudan. These residents face many problems, such as unemployment, low quality shelter, high crime rates, drug abuse, poor and insufficient infrastructures and low literacy levels. Problem: Namuwongo village is heavily populated and majority of her inhabitants dwell in congested environments prone to many vaccine preventable diseases. It is one of the suburbs in Kampala that has less educated residents with one health center therefore making it a barrier to utilization of immunization services. Therefore, in case this continues the nation will have persistent mortalities and morbidities. Objective: To determine the knowledge, attitude and practice on immunization among care takers of children below five years in Namuwongo village. Methodology: The study was carried out from the 25th October, 2014, to 15th November, 2014. 200 participants were interviewed using a researcher administered questionnaire, with the help of research assistants. A cross sectional, descriptive study was carried out to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practices towards immunization among the care takers of children who are below five years in Namuwongo community. The data was collected using the researcher administered questionnaires that was presented to the respondents who consented and were willing to take part in the study. Pre-coded self administered questionnaires were administered by the researcher and the research assistants to collect data from the respondents. The data was presented in tables, bars and pie charts.

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