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In India, the standard vaccination schedule is recommended by the Indian Academy of Paediatrics(IAP). [29] The latest schedule was the one given in 2016. [ 30 ]
Another explanation could be that the Indian government underspends on vaccines in general. [13] Somehow India's population does not demand vaccines, which could be a result of lack of public health education. [13] India also has pseudoscience activists promoting vaccine hesitancy. [13]
2013 stamp dedicated to the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. The Indian Academy of Pediatrics is the association of Indian pediatricians.It was established in 1963, in Mumbai, India and claims to have 23,000 members, as of the year 2013 [1] The head office of IAP is in Mumbai while Delhi is the seat of its official publication – Indian Pediatrics, a MEDLINE indexed medical journal. [2]
Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) is a vaccination programme launched by the Government of India in 1985. [1] It became a part of Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme in 1992 and is currently one of the key areas under the National Health Mission since 2005.
The reported events in these Asian nations caused public uncertainty regarding the use of pentavalent vaccines to spread to other developing nations. [22] In response to this, and a corresponding spread of inaccurate information about vaccine safety, the Indian Academy of Pediatrics released a statement in support of pentavalent vaccines. [23]
Of the theoretical group of 4,261,494 babies, beginning in 2009, who had followed a standard childhood immunization schedule under the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guidelines "will prevent ≈42,000 early deaths and 20 million cases of disease, with net savings of $13.5 billion in direct costs and $68.8 billion in total societal ...
This is a list of the States of India ranked in order of percentage of children between 12–23 months of age who received all recommended vaccines, including all required doses of the BCG vaccine, Hepatitis B vaccine, polio vaccine, DPT vaccine, and the MMR vaccine. This information was compiled from National Family Health Survey - 4 and 5 ...
National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) is an advisory committee composed of multidisciplinary experts responsible for providing information to national governments. This information is used to make evidence-based decisions regarding vaccines and immunization policies .