Nepal's national childhood vaccination program, initiated in the 1978/79 fiscal year not long after the World Health Organization established the global Expanded Programme on Immunization, and expanded to cover all of Nepal's 75 districts within about a decade of its launch. Structural changes to the health system slowed early progress, and national coverage did not reach roughly 80 percent until the year 2000, but coverage has since improved substantially: over 90 percent of Nepali infants now receive their diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccination series by 14 weeks of age. The current EPI schedule gives children BCG at birth, combined diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-hepatitis B-Hib and oral polio vaccines at 6, 10 and 14 weeks, inactivated polio vaccine at 14 weeks, measles-rubella vaccine at 9 months, Japanese encephalitis vaccine between 12 and 23 months, and tetanus toxoid for pregnant women, delivered as of the 2021-2022 official annual report through nearly 17,000 EPI clinics staffed by more than 50,000 female community health volunteers.
Facts
Program StatusPriority 1 (P1) program, active 1 Sponsoring BodyChild Health Division, Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP), Nepal 1 Measured Results97% population coverage regardless of wealth, gender and age 1 Program status (class) Classification
Program KindVaccination or Immunization Program 1 Connections
Associated With
Source opecfund.org: Nepal Expanded Programme on Immunization
Delivers Practice
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Sources
1. Healthcare in Nepal - Wikipedia
Child health programmes section
The Nepalese Child Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP), has launched several child survival interventions, including various operational initiatives, to improve the health of children in Nepal. These include the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI), the Community-Based Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (CB-IMCI) program, the Community-Based Newborn Care Program (CB-NCP), the Infant and Young Child Feeding program, a micro-nutrients supplementation program, vitamin A and deworming campaign, and the Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition program.
Immunization section, opening sentence
The National Immunisation Program is a priority 1 (P1) program in Nepal.
Immunization section, coverage sentence
Nepal has since gained recognition for the success of the program, in relation to its successful coverage of 97% population equally, regardless of wealth, gender and age.
Text of the cited page
The National Immunisation Program is a priority 1 (P1) program in Nepal.
Program classification, entity description sentence
Nepal's national childhood vaccination program, initiated in the 1978/79 fiscal year not long after the World Health Organization established the global Expanded Programme on Immunization, and expanded to cover all of Nepal's 75 districts within about a decade of its launch.
View the Sourceopecfund.org: Nepal Expanded Programme on Immunization
opecfund.orgAssociated With: Public Health, Page textQuote, Associated With: Public Health, Page text
The program aimed at reducing the mortality rate of mothers and of children up to 5 years of age by providing immunization and vaccine services against Polio, ECG, TT, Measles and DPT.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.