Building on the momentum of the smallpox eradication effort, the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) was launched in 1974 to ensure that all children, in all countries, benefited from life-saving vaccines. This programme has evolved into what is now commonly known as the Essential Programme on Immunization.

Since the foundation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974, vaccines have provided the single greatest contribution to improving health outcomes globally, particularly among children and infants.

2024年1月1日 · The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), an initiative launched by the World Health Organization in 1974, stands as a global endeavor to ensure equitable access to life-saving vaccines for every child, regardless of their …

Comprehensive multi-year plan for immunization (cMYP) A strategic plan for the national immunization programme, including situation analysis, objectives, strategies and activities, costing and financial analysis and monitoring and evaluation frameworks. Concept note Describes the EPI Review objectives, methods, timelines and human and

This site provides resources useful to address policy and programmatic aspects of introducing a new vaccine into a national immunization programme. EPI vaccines are considered to be among the most efficient uses of scarce health care resources.

2024年5月25日 · On this important anniversary for EPI—now called the Essential Programme on Immunization—Andrew J Shattock and colleagues report in The Lancet on modelled estimates of deaths averted, life-years gained, and years of full health gained by routine and supplementary immunisation since 1974 among children and adults. 3 They found that efforts ...

World Health Organization. (‎2017)‎. A guide for conducting an Expanded Programme on Immunization (‎EPI)‎ review. World Health Organization.

iv Immunization in practice: Module 2 About this module This module describes seven EPI disease-preventing vaccines: • bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine (tuberculosis vaccine); • oral polio vaccine (OPV); • diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine; • hepatitis B (HB) vaccine; • measles vaccine; • yellow fever vaccine ...

2024年5月18日 · Now referred to as the Essential Programme on Immunization, 50 years on, every country has a national immunisation programme. The EPI recommends 13 vaccines for all countries including those against rubella, hepatitis B, and human papillomavirus to …

2024年5月25日 · WHO, as requested by its member states, launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974 to make life-saving vaccines available to all globally. To mark the 50-year anniversary of EPI, we sought to quantify the public health impact of vaccination globally since the programme's inception.