Learning Outcomes

When you have studied this session, you should be able to:

• Define and use correctly all of the key words printed in bold.
• Describe the common antiviral vaccines available in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in Ethiopia, and the new rotavirus vaccine that will become available soon.
• Describe the storage, dosages and schedules of the common antiviral EPI vaccines, and the dosage of vitamin A given routinely with measles vaccine or to children with measles.
• Describe the possible adverse events following immunization with the antiviral EPI vaccines and how you manage them at Health Post level.
• Describe the contraindications for the antiviral EPI vaccines.