Polio as a platform: using national immunization days to deliver vitamin A supplements

Polio as a platform: using national immunization days to deliver vitamin A supplements

In 1988 the 41st World Health Assembly committed WHO to the goal of global eradication of poliomyelitis by 2000 "in ways which strengthen national immunization programmes and health infrastructure". The successful use of polio National Immunization Days (NIDs) to deliver vitamin A is an ex...

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Main Authors: Tracey Goodman, Nita Dalmiya, Bruno de Benoist, Werner Schultink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2000-03-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
cost of illness
delivery of health care
dietary supplements
immunization programmes
vitamin A deficiency
vitamin A
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000000300005&lng=en&tlng=en

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