Immunization & EPI Programme

Why it matters

Over the past 50 years, vaccination against 14 diseases has cut infant deaths by 40% globally — and by more than 50% in the WHO African Region — saving about 154 million lives (WHO/UNICEF, 2024). Yet coverage gaps persist: in 2024 around 20 million infants missed at least one DTP dose, including 14.3 million "zero-dose" children, with 26 crisis-affected countries holding a quarter of infants but half of all unvaccinated children (WHO/UNICEF, 2025). The return is unmatched — each life saved through immunization gained about 66 years of full health, and WHO calls immunization "the single greatest contribution of any health intervention" to healthy survival (WHO/UNICEF, 2024).

InBasket AI keeps each child’s immunization record on one continuous source so a small care team can work from a single, trustworthy source of truth — part of expanding access to care for the next billion people.

Designed with reference to recognized global, national, and clinical standards

This care area is designed with reference to a standards ecosystem, including global guidance, national protocols, specialty-society recommendations, interoperability standards, and programme reporting requirements where applicable:

• WHO/UNICEF Expanded Programme on Immunization planning and coverage-monitoring guidance
• CDC ACIP immunization schedule, contraindication, and catch-up guidance where locally applicable
• Gavi zero-dose, equity, and coverage-monitoring frameworks where adopted
• National EPI schedule, stock, adverse-event, and immunization-registry reporting requirements
• National Ministry of Health standard treatment guidelines, essential medicines lists, and local scope-of-practice rules for the implementation setting
• HL7 FHIR, ICD-10, LOINC, SNOMED CT, and local terminology/coding standards where adopted
• National programme registers, surveillance definitions, DHIS2 or equivalent reporting requirements, and donor-reporting mappings where adopted

Standards sources

These sources substantiate the standards named above. Implementation-specific national protocols are selected from official national or regional authorities during deployment.

1. [1]World Health Organization guidelines and publications
2. [2]UNICEF health and nutrition guidance
3. [3]CDC clinical guidance
4. [4]CDC ACIP vaccine recommendations
5. [5]Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
6. [6]Official national Ministry of Health protocols for the implementation setting — Implementation-specific: selected from the official national or regional authority during deployment.
7. [7]HL7 FHIR
8. [8]WHO ICD classifications
9. [9]LOINC
10. [10]SNOMED CT
11. [11]National programme registers, DHIS2 or equivalent reporting requirements — Implementation-specific programme registers and reporting rules are configured from official national systems where adopted.

Evidence sources

• WHO/UNICEF/Gavi Immunization saves 154 million lives (2024)
• ·WHO/UNICEF Global childhood vaccination coverage (2025)