Introduction of Sequential Inactivated Polio Vaccine-Oral Polio Vaccine Schedule for Routine Infant Immunization in Brazil's National Immunization Program

Polio inactivated vaccine costs into routine childhood immunization in Brazil

OBJECTIVE To analyze the costs of vaccination regimens for introducing inactivated polio vaccine in routine immunization in Brazil. METHODS A cost analysis was conducted for vaccines in five vaccination regimens, including inactivated polio vaccine, compared with the oral polio vaccine-only regimen. The costs of the vaccines were estimated for routine use and for the "National Immunization Days...

Perspectives on Introduction of Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine in National Immunization Program and Polio Endgame Strategy

Introduction of Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine in National Immunization Program and Polio Endgame Strategy.

The World Health Organization declared India among other 10 countries in South East Region - as 'polio-free' in 2014. Since then, the Government of India (GoI) has scaled up its initiatives against polio endgame which targets virus eradication and sequential withdrawal of type 2 virus from oral polio vaccine (OPV). However, prior to choosing the switch from trivalent OPV (t-OPV) to bivalent OPV...

Role of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Accelerating Inactivated Polio Vaccine Introduction.

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance) is an international organization built through public-private partnership. GAVI has supported more than 200 vaccine introductions in the last 5 years by financing major proportion of costs of vaccine to 73 low-income countries using a co-financing model. GAVI has worked in close co-ordination with Global Polio Eradicatio...

Oral polio vaccine immunization coverage with regard to polio eradication in Zambia: 2000-2009: A review

During the 41 st World Health Assem3ly (WHA) meeting, it was resolved that World Health Organization (WHO) takes initiative for global eradication of poliomyelitis exclusively by Oral Polio Vaccination (OPV) by year 2000 with all member countries. WHO Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) schedule requires all children below 1 year of age to get 4 doses of OPV. A regular review of OPV3 coverag...