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Vaccination programme improves children’s health

08:15' 11/02/2008 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge - The expanded programme of immunisation (EPI), which has

covered up to 95 percent of the nation’s under-five children, has contributed

greatly to reducing by half the infant and under-five mortality rates.

The under-five mortality dropped from 58 to 27 deaths per 1,000 live births

between 1990 and 2006, while the rate among new-borns decreased from 44 to 22

deaths per 1,000 live births.

Vietnam boasts one of the world’s most successful vaccination programme, said Dr

Mare Olive, Chief Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The country has reported no death from measles among children recently, laying a

firm foundation for it to totally eradicate the disease two years ahead of

world’s target.

Hepatitis B vaccine has become the seventh that is being widely used in the

programme in addition to vaccines against Japanese encephalitis, cholera and

typhoid.

Polio has been completely eliminated nationwide for half a decade thanks to the

provision of three doses of polio vaccine to all under-one children under the

EPI and two additional doses to under-five children in 32 high-risk provinces

and cities which border neighbour countries and have regular changes in the

population.

Vietnam has also been able to eradicate tetanus in newborns thanks to its

efforts to educate the public on the need of vaccination.

The EPI initiated in 1985 is designed to protect children from TB, tetanus,

diphtheria, typhoid, measles, whooping cough and hepatitis.

(Source: VNA)

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/02/768104/

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Vaccination programme improves children’s health

08:15' 11/02/2008 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge - The expanded programme of immunisation (EPI), which has

covered up to 95 percent of the nation’s under-five children, has contributed

greatly to reducing by half the infant and under-five mortality rates.

The under-five mortality dropped from 58 to 27 deaths per 1,000 live births

between 1990 and 2006, while the rate among new-borns decreased from 44 to 22

deaths per 1,000 live births.

Vietnam boasts one of the world’s most successful vaccination programme, said Dr

Mare Olive, Chief Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The country has reported no death from measles among children recently, laying a

firm foundation for it to totally eradicate the disease two years ahead of

world’s target.

Hepatitis B vaccine has become the seventh that is being widely used in the

programme in addition to vaccines against Japanese encephalitis, cholera and

typhoid.

Polio has been completely eliminated nationwide for half a decade thanks to the

provision of three doses of polio vaccine to all under-one children under the

EPI and two additional doses to under-five children in 32 high-risk provinces

and cities which border neighbour countries and have regular changes in the

population.

Vietnam has also been able to eradicate tetanus in newborns thanks to its

efforts to educate the public on the need of vaccination.

The EPI initiated in 1985 is designed to protect children from TB, tetanus,

diphtheria, typhoid, measles, whooping cough and hepatitis.

(Source: VNA)

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/02/768104/

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