Pakistan's national childhood vaccination program, launched in 1978 to protect children against six vaccine-preventable diseases, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and measles, delivered through routine immunization to infants and children across the country. The World Health Organization's Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office lists the Expanded Programme on Immunization among its ongoing programme areas for Pakistan, reflecting the program's role as the country's primary channel for delivering routine childhood vaccination.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyGovernment of Pakistan; the federal Expanded Programme on Immunisation handles vaccine procurement since the 2010 constitutional devolution of health service delivery to the provinces, financed with development partners, chiefly GAVI and UNICEF for vaccine purchase. 1 Health GoalAddresses vaccine-preventable diseases, which the literature attributes to half of post-neonatal deaths in Pakistan, through routine childhood immunisation. 1 Geographic ScopeNationwide, Pakistan; delivered through provincial health departments since the 2010 Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment devolved immunisation service delivery, with the federal programme limited to vaccine procurement. 1 Measured ResultsOnly about two-thirds of Pakistani children were receiving full immunisation as of the study period, with on-time vaccination rates even lower; coverage has been chronically low. 1 Classification
Program KindVaccination or Immunization Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
Sources
1. System Within Systems: EPI in Pakistan (PMC6525435)
PubMed Central (PMC)Programme launch sentence
Pakistan initiated its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) in 1978.
Financing sentence
The Government of Pakistan, with assistance from development partners, finances the immunisation services in the country. The bulk of resources come from GAVI/UNICEF for purchasing vaccines.
Devolution sentence
Following the 18th constitutional amendment in 2010, health was devolved to provinces; the federal EPI was assigned fewer activities, such as the purchasing of vaccines, while provinces were tasked with immunisation service delivery.
Coverage-gap sentence
With only two-thirds of children receiving full immunisation, Pakistan is among those countries where immunisation rates have been chronically low and those of on-time vaccination even lower.
Burden-of-disease sentence
50% of post-neonatal deaths are attributed to vaccine-preventable diseases
Program classification, entity description sentence
Pakistan's national childhood vaccination program, launched in 1978 to protect children against six vaccine-preventable diseases, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and measles, delivered through routine immunization to infants and children across the country.
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