World Health Organization, South-East Asia Regional Office

Thailand 2017

Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)
FACT SHEET

Acronyms
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MCV1

First dose measles containing vaccine

AEFI

Adverse events following immunization

MCV2

Second dose measles containing vaccine


AFP

Acute flaccid paralysis

MICS

Multiple indicator cluster survey

BCG

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine

MMR

Measles mumps rubella vaccine

CES

Coverage evaluation survey


MNT

Maternal and neonatal tetanus

cMYP

Comprehensive multi-year plan

MR

Measles rubella vaccine

CRS

Congenital rubella syndrome

NCIP

National committee on immunization practices


DHS

Demographic health survey

NID

National immunization day

DT

Diphtheria tetanus toxoid, pediatric

NTAGI

National technical advisory group on immunization

DTP

Diphtheria – tetanus – pertussis vaccine


NPEV

Non-polio enterovirus

DTP-Hib-HepB

Pentavalent vaccine

NT

Neonatal tetanus

DTP-Hib-HepB3 3rd dose pentavalent vaccine

OPV

Oral poliovirus vaccine

EPI


Expanded programme on immunization

bOPV

Bivalent OPV

GDP

Gross domestic product

tOPV

Trivalent OPV

HCW

Health care worker

PCV


Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

HepB

Hepatitis B vaccine

SEAR

WHO South-East Asia Region

Hib

Haemophilus influenzae type b

SIA

Supplementary immunization activities

HPV


Human papilloma virus

SNID

Subnational immunization day

IgM

Immunoglobulin M

Td

Tetanus diphtheria toxoid; older children, adults

IPV

Inactivated poliovirus vaccine

TT


Tetanus toxoid

JE

Japanese encephalitis

TT2+

2 or more doses TT

JE_Live-Atd

JE live attenuated vaccine

VDPV

Vaccine derived poliovirus

JRF


WHO UNICEF joint reporting form

VPD

Vaccine preventable diseases

LB

Live birth

WCBA

Women of child bearing age

M

Measles

WPV


Wild poliovirus

Contents
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No.

Impact of rouine immunizaion
EPI history

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Basic informaion 2016

MCV1 and MCV2 coverage, measles and rubella cases, 1980-2016

Table 1

5


Immunizaion schedule 2016

MCV supplementary immunizaion aciviies

Table 2

5

Naional immunizaion coverage 1980 - 2016

Figure 1

6

Immunizaion system highlights

Table 3

6

DTP3 coverage, diphtheria and pertussis cases 1980 - 2016

Figure 2

7

Reported cases of vaccine preventable diseases 2011 - 2016

Table 4

7

DTP-Hib-HepB3 coverage by province 2016

Figure 3

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Page
No.

Maternal and neonatal tetanus eliminaion is sustained
TT2+ coverage and NT cases 1980 - 2016

Figure 4

8

Page
No.

Polio-free status is maintained
AFP surveillance indicators 2011 - 2016

Table 5

9

Non-polio AFP rate by province 2015

Figure 5

9

Non-polio AFP rate by province 2016

Figure 6

9

Environmental surveillance sites for polio detecion

Figure 7

10

Adequate stool specimen collecion percentage by province 2015

Figure 8

10

Adequate stool specimen collecion percentage by province 2016

Figure 9

10

OPV supplementary immunizaion aciviies

Table 6

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Page
No.

Towards measles eliminaion and rubella/congenital rubella
syndrome control
Figure 10

11

Table 7

11

MCV1 coverage by province 2016

Figure 11

12

MCV2 coverage by province 2016

Figure 12

12

Immunity against measles – immunity proile by age in 2016

Figure 13

12

Subnaional risk assessment for measles and rubella

Figure 14

12

Sporadic and outbreak associated measles cases by month 2011 - 2016

Figure 15

12

Immunizaion status of conirmed (laboratory and Epi linked) measles outbreak
associated cases by age 2011 – 2016

Figure 16

12

Quality of ield and laboratory surveillance for measles and rubella 2012 - 2016

Table 8

13

Performance of laboratory surveillance 2012 - 2016

Table 9

13

WHO supported laboratory network for VPD surveillance

Figure 17

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WHO South-East Asia Region
Thailand: region level map

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World Health Organizaion concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authoriies, or concerning the delimitaion of its froniers or boundaries.

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Impact of routine immunization
Table 1: Basic information1 2016

EPI history
EPI launched in 1977
1977 - BCG for newborns, DTP for
infants at 2 and 4 months

1982 - OPV introducion, DTP 3rd dose for
infants at 6 months

1984 - MCV for 9-12 months infants

1986 - Rubella vaccine for 6th grade girls

1991 - DTP 4th dose for infants 1.5-2 years

1992 - HepB vaccine scaled up naion-wide

1993 - Rubella vaccine for 1st grade students

1996 - MCV for 1st grade students

1997 - MCV and rubella vaccine were
subsituted by MMR for students

2000 – JE_Inacted vaccine introduced
countrywide

2000 - DTP 5th dose introduced for children
aged 4 years

2004 - Inluenza vaccine introduced for HCWs

2008 - Inluenza vaccine introduced for
high risk adults

2008 - DTP-HepB vaccine introduced

2010 - MCV vaccine subsituted with MMR
for 9-12 months infants

Age of MMR2 changed to children 2.5 years
in 2014 and launched the campaign to cover
the gap in the age between 2.5-7 years

IPV introduced in 2015

tOPV to bOPV switched on 29 April 2016

Rotavirus vaccine provided to 2 and
4 months children through a pilot project in
Sukhothai Province

HPV vaccine provided to girl students of
grade 5 and 6 through a pilot project in
Pranakhonsri Ayuthaya Province

JE live atenuated vaccine started in 2013
in 8 provinces then expanded to cover
29 Provinces in 2014 and the whole country
in 2016.
Source: cMYP 2012-2016 and EPI/MOH



Total populaion

65,931,550

Division/Province/State/Region

77
928

Live births

704,058

District

Children 10% drop-out rate for DTP-HepB1 to DTP-HepB3

no data

Source: WHO/UNICEF JRF, 2016

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Figure 2: DTP3 coverage1, diphtheria and pertussis cases2, 1980-2016
1918 4820

DTP-HepB3 coverage by province

2533

100

800

Figure 3: 2016

700

No. of cases

500

60

400
40

300
200

% Coverage

80

600

20

100
0

0
1980

1985

1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Year
Diphtheria Cases

Pertussis Cases

DTP3 Coverage

WHO/UNICEF esimates of naional immunizaion coverage, July 2017 revision
WHO vaccine-preventable diseases: monitoring system 2016

1
2

Table 4: Reported cases of vaccine preventable diseases, 2011-2016
Year

Polio

Diphtheria

Pertussis

NT
(% of all Tetanus)

Measles

Rubella

Mumps

JE

CRS

2011

0

28

12

1 (1%)

3,156

517

10,077

52

ND

2012

0

63

14

4 (4%)

5,197

493

7,431

54

2

2013

0

28

24

2 (2%)

2,641

539

5,907

59

0

2014

0

19

14

2 (2%)

146

152

3,704

31

ND

2015

0

19

51

0

154

240

3,121

23

0

2016

0

16

84

0

652

7

23

21

0

Source: WHO/UNICEF JRF, (2011-2016)

ND=No data

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Source: SEAR annual EPI reporing form, 2016 (administraive data)
90%

Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination is sustained

Figure 4: TT2+ coverage1 and NT cases2, 1980-2016
MNT eliminaion before 2000

700

100

80

500
400

60
300
200

40

100
0

20
1980

1985

1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2011

2012

Year
NT Cases
WHO/UNICEF JRF, Country oicial esimates, 1980-2016
WHO vaccine-preventable diseases: monitoring system 2016

1
2

© WHO/Thailand/Migrant Health Serv unit,
Moe Sot Hosp, Tak

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TT2+ Coverage

2013

2014

2015

2016

% Coverage

No. of cases

600

Polio-free status is maintained
Table 5: AFP surveillance performance indicators, 2011-2016
The last laboratory conirmed polio case due to WPV was reported in April 1997.
Indicator

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

AFP cases

249

289

235

238

183

246

0

0

0

0

0

0

Wild poliovirus conirmed cases
Compaible cases

0

0

0

0

0

0

Non-polio AFP rate1

1.90

2.21

1.80

1.97

1.36

1.95

Adequate stool specimen collecion percentage2

67%

74%

70%

79%

65%

75%

Total stool samples collected

496

576

444

450

345

464

6

5

5

5

3

8.4

100

100

100

100

100

100

% NPEV isolaion
% Timeliness of primary result reported

3

Number of discarded AFP cases per 100,000 children under 15 years of age.
Percent with 2 specimens, at least 24 hours apart and within 14 days of paralysis onset.
3
Results reported within 14 days of sample received at laboratory.
1
2

Non-polio AFP rate by province

Figure 5: 2015

Figure 6: 2016

© WHO/Thailand/Sansiri Public Company Limited

2

No non-polio AFP case

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Figure 7: Environmental surveillance sites for poliovirus detection

Adequate stool specimen collection % by province

Figure 8: 2015

Bangkock - 1 site
Samut Sakhon - 1 site

Table 6: OPV SIAs
Year

Anigen

2000

OPV

2001

OPV

2002

Geographic
coverage

Target age

Target populaion

Coverage (%)

Round 1

Round 2

Round 1

Round 2

95

>95

95

>95

OPV

95

>95

2003

OPV

95

>95

2004

OPV

95

>95

2006

OPV

95

>95

2007

OPV

93

>93

2008

OPV

95

>95

2009

OPV

95

>95

2010

OPV