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The publicity and resulting panic surrounding the WHO’s announcement of Phase 5 and 6 alerts – especially in the absence (until December) of widely available vaccine – also brought out fraudsters peddling all sorts of ineffective and possibly dangerous protective gear and nostrums: gloves, masks, dietary supplements, shampoo, a nasal sanitizer, and a spray that supposedly coats the hands with a layer of anti-microbial “ionic silver.”
In a few days, I will join 300 global leaders in Abu Dhabi for the world’s first vaccine summit – a gathering dedicated to ensuring that all children everywhere have access to vaccines.
Having eluded killers like malaria and AIDS, one should not then be killed prematurely by cancer – especially a form of cancer that could have been prevented with something as simple and as affordable as a vaccine.
Even an Epstein-Barr virus vaccine, which would protect against some kinds of lymphoma, is achieving promising results.
Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended including the hepB vaccine in routine immunization since 1992, its high price initially hindered its uptake in some developing countries.
By including the hepB vaccine as part of a pentavalent (five in one) vaccine, the Alliance has already facilitated its delivery to children in 70 countries as part of routine immunizations.
The Alliance is now working to make the HPV vaccine available to more than 30 million of the world’s poorest women and girls by 2020; as part of this effort, and coinciding with World Cancer Day, it has launched demonstration programs in eight developing countries.
But, while it is clear that the euro area will have solid and well-equipped quarantine wards should it once again be afflicted by financial contagion, a vaccine to prevent the infection would be far more effective.
Toward an Immunized WorldABU DHABI/NEW YORK – For a child, receiving a vaccine takes just a moment (and perhaps a few tears).
Whether administered before or after exposure, the vaccine is the same, but the immunization schedule and the dosage differ between the two scenarios.
French scientist Louis Pasteur formulated the first rabies vaccine in 1885, by injecting the virus into rabbits, waiting for it to kill them, and then drying the infected nerve tissues to weaken the virus to the point that it could be safely administered.
The rabies vaccine is on the WHO List of Essential Medicines, and has an average wholesale price of $11 per dose in the developing world, and as much as $250 per dose in the United States.
A closely coordinated effort amongst private and public sector partners to deliver oral polio vaccine to every child under five was the key to success.
Last year alone, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative delivered almost two billion doses of polio vaccine to 575 million children in 94 countries.
Every detail, from the number of bicycles and boats needed to deliver the vaccine to otherwise inaccessible areas, to the refrigerators and cold boxes needed to keep the vaccine potent, even the batteries necessary to power them, were counted and budgeted.
This close collaboration delivered the polio vaccine to the poorest of the poor, from the child living on a windswept island in the Congo River to the infant living in a tiny alleyway in Delhi.
This is a small price to pay to ensure that six billion doses of polio vaccine reach 600 million children over the next three years.
For pharmaceutical firms, the development of a vaccine or treatment was not commercially attractive, and so it did not warrant investment.
I am not criticizing pharmaceutical companies for not producing an Ebola vaccine when there was no market for it.
Back then – in the early 1930’s – there was no vaccine for this highly infectious disease.
Yet, sadly, a child still dies every 20 seconds from diseases like pneumonia, which can be prevented by a vaccine.
The vaccine summit builds on a commitment last year by nearly 200 countries to eradicate polio, develop new and improved vaccines at affordable prices, and deliver them to every child by 2020.
Indeed, the Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is almost 100 years old, while the most widely used diagnostic test, microscopic detection of bacilli in sputum, was developed 130 years ago.
The current vaccine prevents severe TB in infants, but not the most prevalent pulmonary TB in all age groups.
But the first potential vaccine to be tested for efficacy recently failed miserably.
A recommendation last year by the World Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization promises to boost vaccines’ cost-effectiveness further, by calling for just two doses of the HPV vaccine, rather than the three doses previously thought to be required.
This will not only reduce the overall cost of vaccine procurement and delivery; it will also make it easier for health-care workers and the girls themselves.
Unfortunately, the study also found that of the 33 countries where HPV vaccines are most likely to have the greatest effect in preventing cancer, 26 had not yet introduced the vaccine.
Influenza vaccine supplies should be increased so that more individuals are inoculated.
Successful containment of SARS might mark the first time in history that person-to-person, respiratory transmission of a major pathogen has been halted globally without the use of antibiotics or a vaccine.
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