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Given that only two Gavi-supported countries, both of which have relatively high enrollment rates, have so far introduced the vaccine nationally, it is not entirely clear how difficult it will be to overcome this challenge.
Ensuring that all girls have access to the HPV vaccine would improve countless lives, not only by reducing rates of cervical cancer, but also by enabling the provision of numerous other critical services.
An Indian company has invented a cheaper Hepatitis B vaccine, bringing down the price from $15 per injection to less than $0.10.
In places like the tribal areas of Pakistan, male vaccinators are often not allowed to enter a stranger’s home, whereas female health workers can deliver the vaccine to vulnerable children, along with other routine immunizations and basic health services.
In 2015, I traveled to neighboring India to take part in a national immunization campaign, joining an all-female team of health workers assigned to administer the polio vaccine to children in an impoverished part of New Delhi.
In the Pakistani district of Kohat, south of Peshawar, female vaccinators have been credited with helping to lower the number of unvaccinated children from 30,000 to 22,000, and to reduce the number of vaccine refusals from around 4,000 to 400.
One health worker described how she has been going door to door to administer the polio vaccine to children for 16 years.
Consider, for example, that before its US approval, a vaccine against rotavirus (a common, sometimes fatal gastrointestinal infection in children) was tested in more than 72,000 children – and another 40,000-plus in post-marketing studies.
On a similar scale, a vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus infection and cervical cancer was tested in almost 30,000 young women.
The latest piece of bad news, which broke late last month, was the discovery by government investigators that a pharmaceutical company had been producing substandard vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, and had faked data for its rabies vaccine.
The fact that a private company with deep political connections is at the center of the vaccine scandal is painful evidence that Xi’s top-down anti-corruption drive has not been as effective as claimed.
But the backlash against Xi began even before the vaccine revelations.
Though there is no clinically proven vaccine against Ebola, this could soon change.
We expect to have two vaccine agents ready for clinical trials in 2015.
But the greatest scientific and public health goal in HIV/AIDS research still eludes us: the development of an effective HIV vaccine.
But our ultimate goal is to develop a vaccine that can prevent HIV infection.
Hopes for a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine were dashed.
Moreover, European drug regulators approved the first licensed human vaccine against malaria – RTS,S, or Mosquirix – in 2015, after nearly three decades of research and development.
But the vaccine remains a major breakthrough.
There is more good news on the vaccine front: a herpes vaccine for shingles has been developed.
The new vaccine is significantly more effective than the one that is currently available, which reduces the risk of contracting shingles by only about 50%.
But, in 2016, the first – and, currently, the only – dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, was approved in 12 countries.
The recommendations are consistent with the WHO’s position paper recommending that countries with a high burden of disease consider the introduction of the vaccine as part of an integrated dengue-management program.
As if that were not enough, we now have an Ebola vaccine, too.
An experimental vaccine tested on humans has been shown to provide 100% protection against the disease.
Indeed, since 2006, the price of rotavirus vaccine has fallen by 67%, to just $2.50 per dose, while the price of a dose of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has plummeted by 90%, to $3.50.
We may not have the equivalent of a vaccine for measles or a bed net for malaria, but low-cost, highly effective interventions are possible for most people either at risk for, or already suffering from, a mental illness.
The resurgence is of the measles – a disease that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared eradicated in 2000, thanks to a highly effective and safe vaccine.
Andrew Wakefield first claimed that there was a relationship between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism in 1998.
From 1996 to 2015, there was a six-fold increase in the rate of vaccine exemptions for students entering elementary school in California.
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