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Article Author: Over 76pc children receive full course of vaccinations under EPI: survey
Media Source: Dawn (Pakistan)
Date: 15 July 2021
The largest ever survey of routine immunisation coverage across Pakistan has found that 76.1 percent of children under the age of two years have received the full course of childhood vaccinations under Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI). The immunisation coverage survey was conducted by researchers from the Aga Khan…
The largest ever survey of routine immunisation coverage across Pakistan has found that 76.1 percent of children under the age of two years have received the full course of childhood vaccinations under Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI). The immunisation coverage survey was conducted by researchers from the Aga Khan University (AKU) in partnership with Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments, EPI, World Health Organisation, GAVI the Vaccine Alliance and the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The survey was funded by the World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Vaccines represent a low-cost and high-impact intervention that can raise health standards across the country,” said AKU’s Professor Sajid Soofi, the study’s principal investigator.