International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health
An overview of the universal immunization programme in India: a multi-level discussion
Background: The World Health Organisation (WHO) first introduced the idea of an immunization programme in 1974 with the inauguration of the “Expanded Programme on Immunization” (EPI). In India, EPI was launched in 1978 and was renamed the universal immunization programme (UIP) in 1985. It is crucial to talk about the situation at the global and local levels to better understand the immunization programme’s implementation status. Methods: The primary objective of this paper is to illustrate the performance of the im …