Mongolia National Immunization Program: Financing Assessment

Abstract

This assessment was intended to provide information for use in immunization financial planning, policy dialogues, and funding negotiations with donors and international agencies.

The Mongolian immunization program has an excellent record, with high rates of coverage and low incidence of several diseases. Polio and neonatal tetanus have been eradicated, and only one case of pertussis and four of diphtheria (after an outbreak in 1995) were reported in 2000.

However, the government must consolidate the advantages it has gained in disease control by strengthening program quality and sustainability and making the program cost-effective.