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By making today’s medicines, vaccines, and other health tools universally available – and by stepping up research efforts to develop tomorrow’s health tools – we could close the health gap between wealthy and poor countries within a generation.
Success will require a global commitment to ensuring that everyone can access today’s powerful health technologies and services, like childhood vaccines, treatment for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, and prenatal care for pregnant women.
International diplomatic efforts must therefore focus on achieving temporary ceasefires to bring in the most urgently needed help, such as polio
vaccines
for children.
On the contrary, in the race to prevent antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the world has a potent if underused tool:
vaccines.
One epidemic currently plaguing Pakistan illustrates vaccines’ potential.
We already know that
vaccines
help reduce the risk of AMR.
Most important, while superbugs develop resistance to medications, they do not become resistant to
vaccines.
And yet, despite vaccines’ effectiveness in the fight against AMR, we are not taking full advantage of them.
Simply put, there is an urgent need to increase uptake of
vaccines
that are already available – including for typhoid – and to develop new ones.
For existing vaccines, the top priority should be to ensure universal access, which will require a huge expansion in international coordination.
A new report commissioned by Wellcome highlights many further opportunities for
vaccines
to make a positive impact on global health and AMR.
But
vaccines
are also needed to prevent these diseases in the first place.
By increasing investments now, new
vaccines
will be available to help care providers stay ahead of superbugs.
We have no time to waste in bringing new
vaccines
to market.
And when effective
vaccines
are deployed widely, superbugs will cease being so menacing.
But now assume that there is only enough of some critical resource to produce
vaccines
for half the population.
Under conditions of scarcity, the only way to ensure a fair outcome would be to award the
vaccines
through a lottery.
In other parts of the world, the emergence of respect for a patient’s right to refuse
vaccines
creates a difficult challenge for those seeking to eradicate diseases such as polio.
Doctors and their patients are now eager to gain early access to biopharmaceutical medicines – a new variety of injectable drugs, including proteins, nucleic acids, and
vaccines
that are produced using biotechnology.
I was also given
vaccines
to prevent life-threatening infections such as polio and measles.
Those early experiences of children I knew contracting disease, especially the poliovirus that is so visibly impairing, shaped my views on the immense value of good health and the power of
vaccines.
For example, vitamin A drops – which provide infants with an essential micronutrient for vision and healthy growth – are now delivered twice yearly in conjunction with polio
vaccines.
The size of the challenges that we face was made clear at the beginning of this year, when a measles outbreak killed more than 300 children in Pakistan – most of whom had not received
vaccines.
With the upcoming elections, we have a valuable opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to
vaccines
by strengthening national leadership on health and increasing investment in the health-care system.
And, as I heard from the guardians at the orphanage, educating communities about the value of
vaccines
and mobilizing their support is critical for reaching every last child.
With continued support for vital
vaccines
from Pakistan’s government and people, I am hopeful that the next time I return home, there will be even more reasons to be optimistic about our children’s future.
The Global Security Threat of Antimicrobial ResistanceSEATTLE – Today we are faced with the harsh reality that the treatment or prevention of infectious diseases has not made quantum advances since the early successes of
vaccines
and antimicrobial therapies.
The research and development required to produce new medicines or
vaccines
is time-consuming, often taking more than a dozen years.
The global threat of emerging or resistant infections must be viewed first and foremost in that context, with all countries committed to providing financing, intellectual capital, and available resources to support the discovery, development, manufacture, stockpiling, and equitable distribution of new antimicrobial agents and
vaccines.
Furthermore, governments must ensure that all children have access to life-saving
vaccines.
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