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Obstacles to New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs

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Lack of assistance has already led some Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) to fall behind in requiring children to be vaccinated from vaccine-preventable diseases. This study analyzes the challenges LMICs face as they consider the adoption of new vaccines and identifies practical interventions to address issues uncovered.

 

In 2008, both the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assembly and the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization noted that little had been documented concerning the obstacles faced by Lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) in adopting new vaccines. LMICs receive little external support for their vaccination programs, despite a birth cohort of nearly 80 million and the burden of disease from vaccine-preventable diseases.  The GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) assists 41 low-income countries (LIC), as well as some (31) coun

Publication & Resource Type: 
Publications
Year Published: 
2011
Main Contact: 
Marty Makinen
R4D Author(s): 
Marty Makinen
Funder(s): 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Connected Project: 
Constraints to Vaccine Adoption in Lower and Middle Income Countries
Attached Publications & Resources: 
application/pdf iconNew Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Final.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_English.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_French.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Spanish.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Arabic.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Russian.pdf

Constraints to Vaccine Adoption in Lower and Middle Income Countries

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Results for Development Institute (R4D) recently completed a study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the challenges that Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face as they consider the adoption of new vaccines.  

Results for Development Institute (R4D) completed a study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the challenges that Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face as they consider the adoption of new vaccines. The study was conceived in response to a growing recognition on the part of the WHO that LMICs receive little support for their vaccination programs, despite having a heavy burden of disease and accounting for a large share of the world’s poor.

Main Contact: 
Marty Makinen
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Kira Thorien
Lara Wilson
Maria Belenky
Marty Makinen
Robert Hecht
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconNew Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Final.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_English.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_French.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Spanish.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Arabic.pdf
application/pdf iconExecutive Summary_New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs_Russian.pdf

Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

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CHMI is a global network of partners that systematically identifies, documents, and analyzes health market innovations, disseminates information about these models, and facilitates strategic linkages among entrepreneurs, funders, policymakers, and researchers. Visit http://healthmarketinnovations.org/ to use the interactive CHMI global knowledge platform.

The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) is a global network of partners that seeks to improve the functioning of health markets in developing countries to deliver better results for the poor. CHMI works to accelerate the diffusion of Health Market Innovations, programs and policies—implemented by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), social entrepreneurs or private companies—that have the potential to improve the way health markets operate.

Main Contact: 
Donika Dimovska
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Alice Garabrant
Donika Dimovska
Gina Lagomarsino
Maria Belenky
Rose Reis
Attached File(s): 
application/pdf iconCHMI 2 pager.pdf

Reform of How Health Care is Paid for in China: Challenges and Opportunities

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This paper looks at the challenges China faces in implementing reforms to improve how health care is paid for and ways in which these challenges can be met.

This paper was published as part of a series on health system reform in China undertaken by The Lancet, Peking University Health Sciences Centre and the China Medical Board.  The paper looks at the challenges China faces in implementing reforms to improve how health care is paid for and ways in which these challenges can be met.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Journal Articles
Year Published: 
2008
Main Contact: 
David de Ferranti
R4D Author(s): 
David de Ferranti
Author(s): 
Shanlian Hu, Shenglan Tang, Yuanli Liu, Yuxin Zhao, Maria-Luisa Escobar
Connected Project: 
The Health Financing Task Force
Link to Publication-Resource: 
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61368-9/fullte...
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