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Health Policy and Planning; 4(1): 91-95
© 1989

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Monitoring immunization coverage in the Sudan

ADAM BABIKIR1, COLE P. DODGE2 and IAN PETT3

1National Operations Officer, The Expanded Programme on Immunization, Ministry of Health, Sudan
2UNICEF Representative to Sudan.
3Africa Director of ActionAid, formerly Immunization Project Manager, UNICEF Sudan.

Despite enormous difficulties, the Sudan Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) has achieved considerable success, doubling coverage of the target population every year for four years in succession. In 1986, in an effort to improve reporting efficiency, EPI began to experiment with using microcomputers to collate and process immunization performance data. The resulting system, called 'EPI-Track' provided a simple and robust tool for analysing and depicting programme performance on a monthly basis at district, regional and national level. As it uses a relational database, it can form the core of a much larger and more complex EPI management information system.

EPI-Track contributed to the development of the World Health Organization's global EPI reporting system, with which it now has total compatibility and seamless data transfer. This provides the potential to collate, analyse and graphically depict immunization data from district to global level.


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