PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To assist States and communities in establishing and maintaining preventive health service programs to immunize individuals against vaccine-preventable diseases (including measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B, hepatitis A, varicella, mumps, haemophilus influenza type b, influenza, and pneumococcal pneumonia).

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. HEALTH;
- Communicable Diseases;
- Prevention and Control;
- Program Development;
2. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Families and Child Welfare Services;
- Prevention;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Local;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);