POST 00827E : OTHER INTERVENTIONS WITH VACCINATION

POST 00827E : OTHER INTERVENTIONS WITH VACCINATION Follow-up on Posts 00789E, 00791E, 00793E, 00798E, 00807E and 00814E 26 August 2005 _____________________________________ Bob Davis (mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF/ESARO, cross-posted Post 00814E in "Tech Updates". In his comments, he writes :"More and more, the trend is towards periodic (often twice yearly) child health days which include, as a bare minimum, vaccination, vitamin A and mass deworming". Are all these campaigns the admission of failure of the routine strategy and Primary Health Care? Its objectives and those of disease control and elimination may be contradictory even incompatible in developing countries. On this topic, Anthony Battersby (mailto:[email protected]) from the United Kingdom offers the following short comment. _____________________________________ Whatever happened to Primary Health Care? All this talk of what to combine with immunisation campaigns. We need to get back to focusing on the real issue, which is making primary health services (curative and preventive) routinely available to all. Campaigns cannot provide Primary Health Care. Staff working on campaigns are staff unavailable to provide routine care, that is partly why countries like Nigeria have routine immunisation coverage of 13%. Anthony ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Visit the TECHNET21 Website at http://www.technet21.org You will find instructions to subscribe, a direct access to archives, links to reference documents and other features. ______________________________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message to : mailto:[email protected] Leave the subject area BLANK In the message body, write unsubscribe TECHNET21E ______________________________________________________________________________ The World Health Organization and UNICEF support TechNet21. The TechNet21 e-Forum is a communication/information tool for generation of ideas on how to improve immunization services. It is moderated by Claude Letarte and is hosted in cooperation with the Centre de coopération internationale en santé et développement, Québec, Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) ______________________________________________________________________________