L2.7: Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI)

• Expanded Program on Immunization

  ● Focuses mostly on prevention of communicable diseases

  ● The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was established in 1976 to ensure:

  ○ Infants/children and mothers have access to routinely recommended infant/childhood vaccines.
• Expanded Program on Immunization

  ● Overall Goal of EPI:

  ○ Reduce morbidity and mortality among children against the most common vaccine preventable diseases.

  ● 116 million (86%) of children receive basic vaccines every year but 19 million children miss out.