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
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