- World Immunization Week is celebrated every year in the last week of April.
- Its main objective is to promote the use of vaccines to protect people from disease.
- The theme of World Immunization Week 2024 is "Humanly Possible: Saving Lives through Immunization".
- Vaccination is the process through which a person's immune system becomes immunized against disease-causing agents.
- The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was launched in 1978. In 1985 its name was changed to Universal Immunization Programme.
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