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  • Title: A Moroccan priority -- making success sustainable.
    Journal: CVI Forum; 1994 Aug; (7):11-2. PubMed ID: 12294220.
    Abstract:
    Morocco's highly successful national immunization program, the first Moroccan health program to involve the entire country, has brought the coverage of under-5-year-olds with the major children's vaccines up from 40% in 1986, 1 year before the program began, to 91% in 1993. Coverage figures for individual vaccines are 93% for tuberculosis, 87% for diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus, 87% for polio, and 82% for measles. However, only 34% of pregnant women are immunized with tetanus toxoid. The incidence of related vaccine-preventable disease has fallen. The immunization program has been such a success that the ministry is using it as a model for other programs about to be launched in family planning, safe water and sanitation, and diarrhea. The Health Ministry's Secretary General, Abderrahmane Zahi, believes that the program has been successful because of the efforts taken to mobilize the entire society.
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