Samadhan Prakashrao Debaje

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India – Strengthening Urban Immunization is Need of Time & action plan to reduce inequities and improve coverage

India is making efforts to increase full immunization coverage by designing various strategies as Special immunization campaigns as Missions Indradhanush due to observed slow growth from past trends.

Though efforts are being done at various level for improvement still there is not equity among various fronts as Urban vs Rural, Poor vs Rich, educated vs Illiterate, states vs Union Territories, and issue of inequities is observed among different platforms.

Still mostly one major front always remains neglected i.e. difference rate at which immunization coverage in Urban and Rural areas is improving, this can be seen with the help of figure below. As per UN world urbanization report 2018 India’s 34% population is living in Urban areas, and it will be around 60% by year 2030.

Currently we can see growth in immunization coverage in urban areas compared to Rural is slow as…