Sentence examples for expanded programmes on immunization from inspiring English sources

Along with dozens of partners, UNICEF helps run expanded programmes on immunization to control preventable diseases such as measles and polio.

Over 6,100 children were immunized against measles, and 230 children under one year old were immunized with routine Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) vaccines in the camps.

In all regions of the country, households were selected using random-sampling software developed by a statistician (X-TC) according to the expanded programme on immunization (EPI) method of WHO [17].

It is widely given to infants as part of the WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in countries where TB is endemic.

One promising prevention strategy is intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infancy (IPTi), which involves delivering treatment doses of an antimalarial drug at specified times during routine Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) visits, regardless of Plasmodium infection status [2], [3].

In 1991, the Global Advisory Group of the EPI (Expanded programme on immunization) recommended integrating it into all national immunization programmes [ 8].

As of 2004, the Government was financing only 2 per cent of routine vaccines in the expanded programme on immunization.

The new government expanded programme on immunization (EPI) policy will be implemented to ensure improved EPI coverage throughout the country.

The adapted Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) had been implemented in Sierra Leone since 1974 and covered six major childhood diseases (Table 1).

Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) = routine vaccination activities in health facilities for children aged 9 to 11 months.

The management of the expanded programme on immunization (or EPI) has been decentralized through the delegation of planning, implementation and monitoring to district immunization units.