It plans to keep major facilities under government control, with the emphasis on primary health care - community clinics, immunization programs and the like.

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The second study demonstrated that the vaccine candidate can be administered alongside the standard set of vaccines used in national immunization programs for young infants.

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The Philippines has cut its allocation for immunization programs by 26%.

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Today 80% of Serum's sales are to groups Unicef and the Pan-American Health Organization, as well as immunization programs, the majority of which are from developing markets.

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Agha Gul Dost, an official with Afghanistan's ministry of public health, said Afghan immunization programs faced extreme challenges, both from continuing violence and insecurity as well as from the country's forbidding terrain.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may need to cut back on certain immunization programs, according to the American Public Health Association, along with a variety of other initiatives (although some, like the Vaccines for Children program, are exempt from sequestration).

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Some diseases have been eradicated through concerted programs of relatively cheap immunization.

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In his former role as health secretary, Flavier put in place a model national immunization program and aggressively championed birth control programs despite opposition from the powerful Catholic Church.

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