ABSTRACT
The need for a BCG Vaccination Programme evaluation is explained and the methods generally applied in such evaluation namely:- Concurrent, Early Consecutive and Late Consecutive Assessments are described. The paper covers the Late Consecutive Operational Assessment of the BCG Programme which took the form of a smallpox and BCG scar survey carried out on statistically representative rural and urban populations. An integrated and multi-purpose approach towards Smallpox and BCG Vaccination Programmes and an emphasis on the vaccination of children aged 0-9 years have been advocated with a view to achieving better coverage and greater epidemiological impact.
ABSTRACT
The evaluation process as applied to tuberculosis control programmes and its methodology in respect of epidemiological, operational and technical assessmentsare defined and clearly explained. Detials of planning the evaluation and of assessing the objectives, activities and resources of each of the 3 components of the NTP namely-Prevention, Case-finding and Treatment, are gone into, and the methods of setting up forecasts (or target indices) of the NTP and of undertaking acomprehensive operational assessment (which is applied to all three programme components) are outlined.