Zimbabwe: Taking Stock of Zim's Expanded Programme On Immunisation

20 August 2014

The Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) was introduced in Zimbabwe in 1982 with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The primary objective was to vaccinate all children below the age of one year against six killer diseases: polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis (whooping cough), measles and tetanus.

Since then, new vaccines against other severe vaccine-preventable diseases have been developed and introduced such as the pneumococcal vaccine introduced in 2012, human papilloma virus (HPV) and the rotavirus vaccines which were both introduced in May 2014.

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