Sentence examples for expanded programme for immunization from inspiring English sources

The initial trigger for the project was the 40th anniversary of the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme for Immunization in 2013.

There are many good lessons the NMCPs can learn from this study, as they do from such other programs as nutrition and expanded programme for immunization (EPI).

To be sure no one was missed again, Onekeo Ounmaykoum, from the district Expanded Programme for Immunization, went a day early and gathered the families together for a health education lesson and to explain the importance of the tetanus vaccination.

Anti-HBc Ab: Anti-hepatitis B core antibody; CAR: Central African Republic; DBS: Dried blood spots; EPI: Expanded Programme for Immunization; HBsAg: Hepatitis B surface antigen; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; PCR: Polymerase chain reaction.

Because Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the first vaccine of the Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) and technologies are now available to genetically manipulate BCG [3] [7], we proposed to use recombinant BCG (rBCG) vaccine expressing an HIV-1-derived transgene for priming of both tuberculosis (TB)- and HIV-1-specific HIV-1-specific HIV-1-specific.

A major achievement has been the establishment of a regular supply of vaccines for the Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI).

Table  1 summarizes the critical events described above, and, in retrospect, their impact on the immunization system.> -wrap-foot> Expandedanded Programme for Immunisation; IPPI, Intensified Pulse Polio Immunisation; KGMOA, Kerala Government Medical Doctors Association UIPIP, Universal Immunization Programme; VPD, Vaccine Preventable Disease.

Based on the positive outcome of this campaign, UNICEF and its partners will design similar measles immunization efforts for other cities and towns around East Timor and work toward developing a national expanded programme of immunization for the other five childhood diseases: polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and tuberculosis.

Again, excepting for Maputo HCs, where the situation was considered acceptable, technical staff feel compelled to assume a diversity of extra tasks out of comradeship or on instruction from management, "… the Provincial Health Director just told me to do it, to assume the responsibility for the expanded programme of immunization" (Niassa HC), and, "Orders are orders …" (Nampula HC).

The ministry of health is the overarching health authority in addition to the inter-sectoral governing bodies of priority health programs established in response to global health initiatives (e.g.; expanded programme of immunization, control programs for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, reproductive health, neglected tropical diseases, etc).

In Tajikistan, $1.5 million will cover essential drugs and will strengthen the expanded programme of immunization.