Budget impact of polio immunization strategy for India: introduction of one dose of inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine and reductions in supplemental polio immunization
Budget impact for India for switching from oral polio vaccine (OPV)-based polio immunization to one inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV) based strategy was estimated. Introduction of one dose of IPV will not be cost increasing due to concurrent reductions in supplemental immunizations. The new strategy will lower total expenditure on polio immunization by $4.1 million in 2015 and $10 million in 2017. Vaccine procurement cost will increase from $20 to $47 million but vaccine administration cost will reduce by $20 million. Open-vial policy can reduce OPV wastage rate from 47% to 10%, which will lower cost by an additional $26 million.