Barriers to universal child immunization in rural Senegal 5 years after the accelerated Expanded Programme on Immunization.

The expanded programme in immunization against measles and poliomyelitis, Iran's Experience.

ارزیابی برنامه گسترش ایمن‌سازی مادران و کودکان زیر دو سال شهرستان شهریار

Introduction: Immunization is the most effective means of improving health. In the absence of a proper and regular immunization program, people and especially children will be left at high risk of many infectious diseases. This study was designed to assess Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) for mothers and children under 2 years old in Shahriar, South west of Tehran. Materials and Methods: ...

Vaccination coverage and immunization timeliness among children aged 12-23 months in Senegal: a Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression analysis approach

Introduction Expanded programme on immunizations in resource-limited settings currently measure vaccination coverage defined as the proportion of children aged 12-23 months that have completed their vaccination. However, this indicator does not address the important question of when the scheduled vaccines were administered. We assessed the determinants of timely immunization to help the nationa...

Rehabilitation of the expanded programme on immunization in Sudan following a poliomyelitis outbreak.

In 1993 a large outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis occurred in Sudan as a result of an accumulation of large numbers of susceptible children that was accelerated by faltering immunization services. The extent of the outbreak led to the rapid rehabilitation of Sudan's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI); the government began financing vaccine purchase, operational aspects of EPI were decen...

Availability of expanded programme of immunization services provided to children in a rural Pakistani village.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the immunization status of children under 5 years age, living in the Nurpur Shahan area and to identify various factors which influenced the rate of immunization. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted in which mothers of children under 5 years of age were questioned about the immunization of their children and the immunization services provided in the area. Syst...