Peru's national childhood vaccination program, the country's implementation of the regional Programa Ampliado de Inmunizaciones that the Pan American Health Organization established across the Americas in 1974 to promote vaccination against the major preventable diseases of childhood, itself paralleling the World Health Organization's global Expanded Programme on Immunization launched the same year. Peru's current program provides seventeen vaccines free of charge to every child from birth through age four as part of the national immunization schedule, delivered through the country's public health system and its regional vaccine cold-chain infrastructure. As with other Latin American implementations of the regional PAI framework, Peru's programme forms part of a decades-long, continent-wide effort credited with major reductions in vaccine-preventable childhood disease and death across the Americas since the 1970s.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyPeru's Ministerio de Salud, which grew out of the Ministerio de Fomento 1 Health Goalvaccination and epidemiological surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases as fundamental strategies 1 Geographic Scope Measured Resultseradication of wild poliovirus in Peru in 1991, of measles in 2000, and of rubella in 2006 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: Peru, found in there.
Sources
1. Cadena de frio del programa nacional de inmunizaciones peruano en el contexto de la pandemia covid-19 (Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2024)
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina HumanaBody text, PAI founding sentence
La Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) en 1974, a traves de la Resolucion CD25.R27, establecio el Programa Ampliado de Inmunizacion (PAI), considerando la vacunacion y vigilancia epidemiologica de enfermedades prevenibles como estrategias fundamentales en 1977.
Body text, 1979 implementation sentence
En 1979, el PAI se implemento en Peru, y se llevaron a cabo campanas masivas contra la poliomielitis (Vacunaciones Nacionales-VAN), logrando con exito la erradicacion del virus salvaje de la polio en Peru en 1991, asi como el sarampion en 2000 y la rubeola en 2006.
Body text, eradication results sentence
En 1979, el PAI se implemento en Peru, y se llevaron a cabo campanas masivas contra la poliomielitis (Vacunaciones Nacionales-VAN), logrando con exito la erradicacion del virus salvaje de la polio en Peru en 1991, asi como el sarampion en 2000 y la rubeola en 2006.
Body text, 1896 Ministerio de Fomento sentence
En 1896, la Salud Publica peruana dio tres importantes pasos en la vacunacion: 1) se hizo obligatoria en todo el pais la vacunacion y revacunacion, 2) se establecio el Instituto Vacunal de Lima (hoy conocido como Instituto Nacional de Salud), y 3) el Ministerio de Fomento (ahora Ministerio de Salud) comenzo sus actividades.
Body text, PAHO objective sentence
La Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) en 1974, a traves de la Resolucion CD25.R27, establecio el Programa Ampliado de Inmunizacion (PAI), considerando la vacunacion y vigilancia epidemiologica de enfermedades prevenibles como estrategias fundamentales en 1977.
Body text, national implementation sentence
En 1979, el PAI se implemento en Peru, y se llevaron a cabo campanas masivas contra la poliomielitis (Vacunaciones Nacionales-VAN), logrando con exito la erradicacion del virus salvaje de la polio en Peru en 1991, asi como el sarampion en 2000 y la rubeola en 2006.
Program classification, entity description sentence
Peru's national childhood vaccination program, the country's implementation of the regional Programa Ampliado de Inmunizaciones that the Pan American Health Organization established across the Americas in 1974 to promote vaccination against the major preventable diseases of childhood, itself paralleling the World Health Organization's global Expanded Programme on Immunization launched the same year.
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