VACCINATION GUIDELINE 2019-2020 (IAP) AN OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT SITUATION OF VACCINATION IN INDA Universal Immunization Programme is a vaccination program launched by the Government of India in 1985. later it became a part of the Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme in 1992 and is currently under the National Rural Health Mission(NRHM) since 2005. The program now consists of vaccination for the following twelve diseases –tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis(whooping cough), tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, hepatitis B, diarrhea, Japanese encephalitis, rubella, pneumonia ( Haemophilus Influenzae TypeB) and Pneumococcal diseases ( Pneumococcal pneumonia and meningitis ). Hepatitis B and pneumococcal diseases were added to the UIP in 2007 and 2017, respectively. The other additions in UIP through the way are IPV, rotavirus va...
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