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Each vaccination team 'marks' every house that they visit on a given day. The
houses are marked according to how many children live in a given house, and how
many were immunized by the team. If all children under the age of five years
were immunized by that team, the house is marked as a 'P'-house, meaning the
activity has been completed in this house. If any of the children are away, or
there is apparent resistance by the
family to allow their children to be immunized, the house is marked as 'X'.
Individual vaccination teams visit upwards of 100 houses per day.
In the afternoons, the vaccination teams re-visit all 'X'-marked houses in
efforts to immunize the remaining un-immunized children living in that house.
Later during the week, a second 'team' will focus their entire time on trying to
convert 'X'-houses to 'P'-houses.
In total, there are more than 1.3 million vaccination teams, consisting of at
least two team-members, all over India, going door-to-door in efforts to
immunize every child.
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