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IMMUNIZATION

Universal Childhood Vaccine Distribution Program (UCVDP)

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society supports routine immunization of children through the reinstatement of the Universal Childhood Vaccine Distribution Program (UCVDP), which provided state-purchased, required vaccines at no cost to all public and private health care providers for all children from birth through eighteen (18) years of age and expansion of the UCVDP to include all vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

(Resolution 4-1996, adopted 11/17/96)
(revised, Report N-2008, Item 3-43, adopted 10/19/2008)
(revised, Report I-2009, Item 3-36, adopted 11/01/2009)(revised, Report F-2014, Item 2, adopted 10/25/2014)