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Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)

Benefits of immunization

Vaccines - which protect against disease by inducing immunity - are widely and routinely administered around the world based on the common-sense principle that it is better to keep people from falling ill than to treat them once they are ill. Vaccination is considered to be one of the most cost-effective health interventions. Through vaccination one dreaded disease, Smallpox, was eradicated and poliomyelitis has been eliminated from most countries in the world. It is estimated that over 2.5 million deaths are averted through vaccination every year. Vaccination have an advantage in that they can be delivered with very high coverage even in the most underserved areas, thereby preventing disease, disability and death in these marginalized populations.

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Immunization systems and policy
Information on global strategies and goals, immunization policy, school-based immunization, training initiatives and materials, vaccine management and logistics, Reaching Every District strategy, Comprehensive multi-year planning. and immunization country profiles and summary data.
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Vaccines
Vaccine preventable diseases. Access to the WHO vaccine position papers.
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New vaccines and technologies
Information on vaccines against yellow fever, rubella, invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease and Japanese encephalitis.
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Accelerated disease control
Information on vaccine-preventable diseases, including poliomyelitis, measles, maternal and neonatal tetanus, yellow fever and hepatitis B.
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Linking with other interventions
Information on progress towards linking the delivery of immunization with other interventions such as vitamin A, treated bednets for malaria prevention and anthelminthic drugs.
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Site last revised 31 March 2009


Immunization Home


HIGHLIGHTS

Optimize: Rethinking the vaccine supply chain
The right vaccine, in the right place, at the right time
English version | French version | Spanish version | Optimize July 2009 Newsletter [pdf 298kb]

First-ever global analysis of implementation of newborn hepatitis B Vaccination
Link to weekly epidemiological record (WER) [pdf 233kb]

Global immunization, vision and strategy (GIVS)
Brochure

Link to full document [pdf 3.66Mb]


MEETINGS

Regional Meetings & Key Events Related to Immunization
September 2009 onwards
Link [xls 29kb]

7th Global measles and rubella laboratory network meeting
12-14 October 2009
WHO headquarters, Geneva

Global Measles Management meeting
14-16 October 2009
WHO headquarters, Geneva

Immunization Training Partnership Meeting
26 October 2009
CCV Geneva

Global Immunization Meeting (GIM)
To be organized in partnership between WHO, UNICEF and GAVI
CICG Geneva
1-3 February 2010


GLOSSARY

Link to IVB glossary
CONTACTS

Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
World Health Organization
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1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Fax: +41 22 791 4193
E-mail: vaccines@who.int