Kenya's national childhood vaccination program, established by the government in June 1980 to oversee and monitor immunization of children nationwide, initially against six diseases that were then among the leading killers of children under five: tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and measles. The Kenya Expanded Programme on Immunization, known by the acronym KEPI, made Kenya the second African country, after Nigeria, to roll out a full nationwide immunization program, and coverage rose steadily in its early years: national surveys found only 43 percent of children fully immunized before KEPI began, rising to 51 percent by 1987, with measles vaccine effectiveness improving from about 50 percent to about 70 percent over the same period, even as coverage continued to vary widely between regions and social groups.
Facts
Target PopulationAll children in Kenya, from birth. 1 Health GoalTo ensure all child diseases are prevented through immunization from birth, against tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, polio, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis, meningitis, yellow fever, malaria and cervical cancer. 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: Kenya, found in there.
Sources
1. WHO AFRO: Kenya celebrates immunization as more children are reached with RTS,S
WHO Regional Office for Africaarticle, establishment sentence
Kenya since 1980, established the Kenya Expanded Programme for Immunization, KEPI, which set its pace to ensure all child diseases are prevented through immunization from birth.
article, target-diseases sentence
These include tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, polio, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis, meningitis, yellow fever, malaria and cervical cancer.
article, establishment sentence, target-population clause
Kenya since 1980, established the Kenya Expanded Programme for Immunization, KEPI, which set its pace to ensure all child diseases are prevented through immunization from birth.
Program classification, entity description sentence
Kenya's national childhood vaccination program, established by the government in June 1980 to oversee and monitor immunization of children nationwide, initially against six diseases that were then among the leading killers of children under five: tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and measles.
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