India’s vaccination drive: There remains a need to closely link high-quality and sensitive disease surveillance with immunization efforts, as well as monitoring of anti-vaccine narratives

India’s vaccination drive 

Vaccination is one of the most effective and cost-efficient public health measures, saving millions of lives. India’s Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) is the world’s largest, and annually vaccinates 2.6 crore infants and 2.9 crore pregnant women. It contributed to a decline in under-5 mortality from 45 to 31 per 1,000 live births between 2014 and 2021, according to the Sample Registration System 2021.