{"id":14943,"date":"2025-05-27T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/?post_type=project-news&#038;p=14943"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:27:14","slug":"nip-country-case-series-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"project-news","link":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/project-news\/nip-country-case-series-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"NIP Country Case Series | Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Myanmar&nbsp;is&nbsp;a lower-middle-income country with 68% of its 54.58 million population residing in rural areas. It has been Gavi-supported and is currently in the preparatory phase of transition&nbsp;process of Gavi\u2019s co-financing plan. Its Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), launched in 1978, covers <strong>10 vaccines against 13 diseases<\/strong>. However, vaccine coverage has declined since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing conflict, with persistent drop-out rates and inequities in hard-to-reach and conflict-affected areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Central EPI (CEPI)<\/strong>&nbsp;is under the<strong>&nbsp;Ministry of Health\u2019s Department of Public Health<\/strong>. CEPI and the <strong>Central Epidemiology Unit (CEU)<\/strong>&nbsp;oversees programme\u2019s formulation, planning and development, and other operational-related work. The <strong>National Committee for Immunization Practice (NCIP)<\/strong>, a multidisciplinary advisory body, guides the National Vaccine Programme. Myanmar relies heavily on international assistance, with Gavi as the main contributors; government financing was unstable in the past decade and accounted for 26% of routine immunization expenditure in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vaccines are provided free of charge through both fixed and mobile delivery strategies, with midwives serving as key providers at the subcenter level. Despite a three-tiered cold chain system, logistical constraints and inadequate transport resources hinder service delivery. <strong>Vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) surveillance<\/strong>&nbsp;is conducted by a WHO-supported network, while adverse events following immunization (AEFI) are monitored and reviewed through NCIP\u2019s expert review committee.<\/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 35\/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><\/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 Myanmar&nbsp;is&nbsp;a lower-middle-income country with 68% of its 54.58 million population residing in rural areas. It has been Gavi-supported and is currently in the preparatory phase of transition&nbsp;process of Gavi\u2019s co-financing plan. Its Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), launched in 1978, covers 10 vaccines against 13 diseases. However, vaccine coverage has declined since 2020 due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14946,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"type_label":"none_selected"},"news-category":[73],"class_list":["post-14943","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\/14943","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\/14946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=14943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}