{"id":14938,"date":"2025-06-13T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/?post_type=project-news&#038;p=14938"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:25:17","slug":"nip-country-case-series-lao-pdr","status":"publish","type":"project-news","link":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/project-news\/nip-country-case-series-lao-pdr\/","title":{"rendered":"NIP Country Case Series | Lao PDR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lao PDR, a lower-middle-income, mountainous country with 62% of its 7.63 million population living in rural areas, has been Gavi-eligible since 2002. It has&nbsp;entered its final transition phase in 2017&nbsp;and will end Gavi support at the end of 2025. Its National Immunization Programme (NIP), established in 1979, currently includes <strong>10 vaccines covering 12 diseases<\/strong>. Despite significant improvements, immunization coverage remains below WHO thresholds, with wide disparities across provinces, economic levels, and ethnic groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Immunization Law<\/strong>&nbsp;ensures the government\u2019s commitment to the immunization programme. The NIP operates under the <strong>Ministry of Health\u2019s Department of Hygiene and Prevention<\/strong>, with strategic guidance from a multi-sectoral <strong>National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG)<\/strong>&nbsp;and oversight from an <strong>Interagency Coordinating Committee (ICC)<\/strong>. The government&nbsp;covered 60% of routine immunization expenditure in 2022. Vaccines are provided free of charge at both fixed, outreach sites, and mobile sites. Over 60% of services rely on&nbsp;outreach due to geographic barriers.&nbsp;There are three levels of cold chain management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lao PDR uses the DHIS2 platform for national immunization data reporting but faces challenges in data accuracy and timeliness. AEFI surveillance is conducted through a passive system and the&nbsp;national pharmacovigilance centre was established in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><\/a>Content Editor: Tianyi Deng<br>Page Editor: Ruitong Li<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><strong><em>About NIP Country Case<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NIP country case was part of the WHO APO report <em>Comparative analysis of the national immunization programmes in select ASEAN and SAARC countries: progress and challenges. <\/em>The study was conducted by the VaxLab team in 2023-2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More in the report Chapter 2 (PDF Page 31\/154): <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/380387\/9789290620785-eng.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/380387\/9789290620785-eng.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Content Editor: Tianyi Deng<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Page Editor: Ruitong Li<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Lao PDR, a lower-middle-income, mountainous country with 62% of its 7.63 million population living in rural areas, has been Gavi-eligible since 2002. It has&nbsp;entered its final transition phase in 2017&nbsp;and will end Gavi support at the end of 2025. Its National Immunization Programme (NIP), established in 1979, currently includes 10 vaccines covering 12 diseases. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14941,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"type_label":"none_selected"},"news-category":[73],"class_list":["post-14938","project-news","type-project-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-research-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-news\/14938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project-news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=14938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}