Vaccine Introduction Guidelines - Adding a vaccine to a national programme: decision and implementation

This document aims to help:

• country decision-makers to decide whether to add a new vaccine to the national immunization programme (NIP);
• NIP managers to implement the operational steps to add the vaccine.

Covering policy and programmatic aspects together, the document is addressed towards both audiences, trying to provide guidance for a technically correct decision and implementation. It proposes a generic process to assess the available vaccines for introduction, followed by the common operational steps to introduce the vaccine(s).

Source: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2005/WHO_IVB_05.18.pdf