%0 Journal Article
%T The future of routine immunization in Africa
%A Raoul Kamadjeu
%J Archive of "The Pan African Medical Journal".
%D 2017
%R 10.11604/pamj.supp.2017.27.3.13054
%X The Addis Declaration [1] adopted at the first Ministerial Conference on Immunization in Africa re-iterates the critical value of vaccines in improving the health of people on the continent. In Africa, the successful implementation of vaccination programs resulted in a drastic reduction of the burden of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD): polio is on the verge of being eradicated, more than thousands of measles cases and deaths have been averted; neonatal tetanus is close to elimination and the dreaded cycle of Meningitis A epidemics in West Africa has been broken; to name just a few. Most vaccinations in Africa are delivered through the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI); a combination of infrastructural, programmatic and financial processes aiming at systematically delivering the much needed vaccines to all eligible target population in a country
%K Expanded program on immunization
%K vaccine preventable diseases
%K immunization
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745926/