Vaccination Systems In Developing Countries

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VACCINATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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Introduction
Vaccination is an administration of vaccine into the body. A vaccine contains
microorganisms which have been weakened or killed, but may have proteins or toxins. They are
used to stimulate the body’s immunity system and assist in the prevention of sickness from
infectious disease. The main purpose of designing vaccine is to prevent and protect one from
getting an infection or a disease (Weldegebriel, et al., 2018). Scientists believe that the cost of
prevention is not expensive as compared to treating. The most important thing that a nation
focuses is the health and its development. Above all this is the issue of fighting diseases that
suppress and also endangers the life of children. Many diseases have been realized to contribute
to the high rate of mortality in children that are below 5 years of age. A disease that is deadly and
requires greater concentration and that have been drastically causing challenge to the developing
nation includes yellow fever, polio measles, diphtheria and hepatitis.
Vaccination systems in more developed country: USA
To compare the fight for implementation of vaccine that could prevent these diseases in
two different nations, it is important to note that a lot of improvement should be made.
According to the research, tetanus kills 800000 infant every year, TB kills 2million infant every
year and this mostly happens in developing countries that have poor system of immunization
routine. In most developed countries it said that 50% of infant are given 3 doses of diphtheria,
pertussis, and tetanus. This has been found to help in preventing massive death of children.
Countries such as US are said to have strong routine of immunization platforms and this
has been generated by the formulation of strong policies that effectively strengthen the health

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and also there is strong financial support with good infrastructure development and good
technology that offers excellent transport. They also invest in research as they try to look way
forward in making new vaccines that could lower the rate of mortality in children.
The US has invented new vaccine called Hib. This vaccine could reduce Hib-related
diseases but estimated 400000 deaths could still be encountered. However, there was a slight
reduction in deaths caused by lack of immunization as compared to other countries. Huge
amount of money is also spent in buying drugs. For example US$56billion is donated annually to
health research and buying of drugs. They also have invented pneumonia vaccine that helps in
fighting acute respiratory disease.
Comparison between developed and developing country
When comparing Afghanistan and USA, it is found that USA is more developed in terms
of immunization as they have strong routine of immunization and the policies they are forming
are improving their health since there is no alteration of structures (Raw, 2019). More developed
countries also have good political structure and there is more financial support from the
industries that help in generating capital that allows them to invest in new drugs.
In Afghanistan, it seen that there is huge mortality rate of infant and with the outbreak
Ebola, there is known weakness in immunization. This is due poor condition of the country.
They have weak systems that cannot enhance immunization process, for example Nigeria has
also the highest number of under vaccinated children (Parker, et al., 2018). The weakness in
these countries is that they have lacked credibility when there is no belief of power to the health
officer in the area during the time of immunization.