Documentation of vaccine wastage in two different geographic contexts under the universal immunization program in India

• Main Authors: Manoja Kumar Das (Author), Mangla Sood (Author), Muralidhar Parashuram Tambe (Author), Thakur Dutt Sharma (Author), Malangori Abdul Gani Parande (Author), Jitendra Bhaskar Surwade (Author), Nandakumar Manikrao Salunkhe (Author), Shital Somsing Patil (Author), Bhagwan Pawar (Author), Rajesh Guleri (Author), Chitra Kaushal (Author), Monica Sindhu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Government of India is introducing new and relatively costly vaccines under immunization program. Monitoring of vaccine wastage is needed to guide the program implementation and forecasting. Under pilot introduction of rotavirus vaccine in two districts both 5- and 10-doses vials...