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ArticleVaccines2025

Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI): A Legacy of 50 Years and the Road Ahead.

Imran Mirza, Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Ann Lindstrand

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Article in Vaccines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Imran MirzaUnited Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Headquarter, New York, NY 10017, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4420-4051
Ephrem Tekle LemangoUnited Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Headquarter, New York, NY 10017, USA.
Ann LindstrandEssential Programme on Immunization Unit, Immunization Vaccines & Biologicals Department, World Health Organization (WHO), 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8271-9486

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Throughout history, disease and epidemics have shaped human survival [...].

Identifiers

PMID40573980
PMCPMC12197319

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