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But, though rotavirus vaccines have been rolled out in 79 countries – a significant accomplishment – a staggering 74% of the world’s infants remain unlikely to be inoculated this year.
They are needed to deliver vaccines and treatments.
These include cold chains to preserve vaccines during transport from factories to patients; established “immunization days” and negotiated “days of tranquility” in conflict zones, when vaccinations can be administered; trained health-care workers; and systems for surveillance, laboratory analysis, and rapid response.
This requires charting new territory beyond popular research topics like alternative energy and vaccines.
Yet it has begun, and completing it offers the hope of moving from the educational equivalent of bloodletting to vaccines and antibiotics.
So far, just 40% of the $448 million that will be needed in the first two years for investments in early warning, rapid response, water, sanitation, and vaccines has been mobilized, and only 10% of the total has been pledged.
It seems only reasonable that the NDB should announce steps to support pharmaceutical research into new TB treatments and vaccines, particularly for drug-resistant strains, given that TB is especially prevalent in the BRICS.
The World Bank should be cut back sharply – to focus on the generation of systematic data; to support new scientific efforts directed at poor-country problems (like the development of vaccines for malaria); and to study long-term global issues, like man-made climate change.
Some worthwhile new risk-management proposals include advance commitments for new vaccines, subsidies to drug manufacturers to make their products more affordable, and regionally pooled catastrophe insurance.
How do you decide which countries should get low-cost loans or cheaper vaccines, and which can afford to fund their own development programs?
It is only when advanced countries are threatened that there is sufficient impetus to invest in vaccines to confront diseases like Ebola.
He also works to expose fallacies and debunk rumors about polio vaccines.
The Gates Foundation and the GAVI Alliance have spent more than $2.5 billion and promised another $10 billion for vaccines.
Founded in 2000 by a partnership of major donors, international agencies, and vaccine industry leaders, Gavi’s goal is to help the world’s poorest countries introduce new lifesaving vaccines and strengthen their immunization programs.
Will countries be able to continue purchasing and delivering the vaccines that were introduced with Gavi support?
Will countries be able to introduce new lifesaving vaccines as they become available?
Or will fiscal pressures lead, in some countries, to vaccine shortages, to declines in immunization coverage, or even, in the worst case, to vaccines being dropped altogether from national programs, reversing the hard-won gains of recent years?
For some of these countries, especially those that have adopted many new vaccines, obtaining adequate and sustainable financing is one of the most daunting challenges posed by the transition.
Combating the virus requires knowledge about its biology, the epidemiology of its transmission, and the drugs and vaccines that could potentially be deployed against it.
The Ethics of EbolaLONDON – As the Ebola virus grips an unprecedentedly wide swath of Africa, many are asking whether it is time to begin administering untested drugs and vaccines.
But another reason is pharmaceutical companies’ declining interest in manufacturing vaccines.
Indeed, only four companies today make vaccines, compared to 26 companies 50 years ago.
Public distrust of vaccines has also played a major role in this decline.
When an epidemic actually begins, people quickly change their minds, and demand the rapid production and distribution of vaccines.
Recognizing this, several African countries are already making plans to roll out meningitis – and other – vaccines into routine immunization systems this year.
Last week, government officials assembled in Ethiopia for the first-ever Ministerial Conference on Immunization in Africa, where they re-committed to ensuring that everyone on the continent has access to the vaccines they need.
We must build on the legacy of the MVP and work toward a world in which every child receives the life-saving vaccines they need to survive and thrive.
These and other funding streams have helped African researchers develop drought-resistant crops, produce vaccines for infectious diseases like Ebola, and expand opportunities for science and technology education.
It has revoked the tax-exempt charity status of an anti-vaccination advocacy group, on the grounds that their fear-mongering misinformation about the danger of vaccines threatens public health, especially the health of children.
Yet a small but vocal group of alarmists and self-serving profiteers continues to spread fear-mongering distortions and outright lies claiming that vaccines do more harm than good.
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