Egypt's National Immunization Program is run by the country's Ministry of Health and Population, launched in 1984 and expanded over four decades to protect against more than a dozen vaccine-preventable diseases at no cost through government health units nationwide. The program has kept Egypt polio-free since 2006 and free of endemic measles and rubella transmission for multiple consecutive years, delivering tens of millions of vaccine doses annually through both routine immunization and school-based dosing, with a stated national coverage target of ninety-five percent needed to sustain herd immunity. Egypt's Ministry of Health describes the program's current strategic goal as maintaining an epidemic-free Egypt, extending its original scope to ten major diseases.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyMinistry of Health and Population, Egypt 1 Target PopulationAll children living in Egypt, including non-Egyptians 2 Geographic ScopeNationwide, every governorate and district in Egypt 1 Measured Results 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: Africa, found in there.
Sources
1. Clinit: Egypt's National Immunization Program, A Complete Guide
Program overview, launch sentence, year clause
launched the National Immunization Program (NIP) in 1984
Program overview, launch sentence, subject clause
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population launched
Program overview, geographic coverage passage
every governorate and district in Egypt
Program classification, entity description sentence
Egypt's National Immunization Program is run by the country's Ministry of Health and Population, launched in 1984 and expanded over four decades to protect against more than a dozen vaccine-preventable diseases at no cost through government health units nationwide.
View the Source2. UNICEF Egypt: Vaccines
Opening sentence
Egypt's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)
Coverage sentence
vaccination coverage for all children living in Egypt (including non-Egyptians) has soared above 95%
Achievements list, first item
Egypt has been Polio-free since 2006
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