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Addressing Immunization Inequity—What Have the International Community and India Learned over 35 Years?
Countries around the world established immunization programs over 40 years ago to reach all infants. The maturity of these preventive health programs offers some useful learning on the importance of, and components needed for, population-based services to reach all communities. A public health succe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141084/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112702 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11040790 |
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description | Countries around the world established immunization programs over 40 years ago to reach all infants. The maturity of these preventive health programs offers some useful learning on the importance of, and components needed for, population-based services to reach all communities. A public health success, ensuring equity in immunization, requires a multi-faceted approach that includes sustained government and partner commitment and human, financial, and program operational resources. Evidence from India’s Universal Immunization Program (UIP) across stabilizing vaccine supply and services, enhancing access, and generating demand for vaccines in the community provides a useful case study. The political leadership in India took advantage of the two decades of learning from polio eradication and focused initiatives, such as the National Health Mission and Intensified Mission Indradhanush, to reach populations with immunization services. With a goal of leaving no one behind, India’s UIP and partners are bringing essential rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines nationwide, upgrading vaccine cold chain and supply systems with technologies, such as the electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN), and optimizing funding for local needs through the Program Implementation Plan (PIP) budgetary processes and building health worker capacities through training, awareness, and e-learning. |
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spelling | pubmed-101410842023-04-29 Addressing Immunization Inequity—What Have the International Community and India Learned over 35 Years? Shimp, Lora Ghosh, Raj Shankar Elkes, Katharine Vaccines (Basel) Opinion Countries around the world established immunization programs over 40 years ago to reach all infants. The maturity of these preventive health programs offers some useful learning on the importance of, and components needed for, population-based services to reach all communities. A public health success, ensuring equity in immunization, requires a multi-faceted approach that includes sustained government and partner commitment and human, financial, and program operational resources. Evidence from India’s Universal Immunization Program (UIP) across stabilizing vaccine supply and services, enhancing access, and generating demand for vaccines in the community provides a useful case study. The political leadership in India took advantage of the two decades of learning from polio eradication and focused initiatives, such as the National Health Mission and Intensified Mission Indradhanush, to reach populations with immunization services. With a goal of leaving no one behind, India’s UIP and partners are bringing essential rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines nationwide, upgrading vaccine cold chain and supply systems with technologies, such as the electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN), and optimizing funding for local needs through the Program Implementation Plan (PIP) budgetary processes and building health worker capacities through training, awareness, and e-learning. MDPI 2023-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10141084/ /pubmed/37112702 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11040790 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Opinion Shimp, Lora Ghosh, Raj Shankar Elkes, Katharine Addressing Immunization Inequity—What Have the International Community and India Learned over 35 Years? |
title | Addressing Immunization Inequity—What Have the International Community and India Learned over 35 Years? |
title_full | Addressing Immunization Inequity—What Have the International Community and India Learned over 35 Years? |
title_fullStr | Addressing Immunization Inequity—What Have the International Community and India Learned over 35 Years? |
title_full_unstemmed | Addressing Immunization Inequity—What Have the International Community and India Learned over 35 Years? |
title_short | Addressing Immunization Inequity—What Have the International Community and India Learned over 35 Years? |
title_sort | addressing immunization inequity—what have the international community and india learned over 35 years? |
topic | Opinion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141084/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112702 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11040790 |
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