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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

Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage

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The Joint Learning Network (JLN) for Universal Health Coverage brings together countries from across the globe to share experiences and challenges in implementing health financing reforms.

Over the past decade, a number of national or state-level reforms have been implemented by governments that are committed to achieving universal health coverage through “demand-side” financing models, often specifically targeting the poorest and informal sectors of their populations. While many implementing countries have not yet achieved universal health coverage, reforms are underway in countries as varied as Chile, Colombia, Estonia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Website: 
http://www.jointlearningnetwork.org/
Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Alice Garabrant
David de Ferranti
Gina Lagomarsino
Maria Belenky

Joint Learning Workshop brings together six countries to discuss universal health coverage

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8 February, 2010

On February 3-5, R4D and its partners convened delegations from six countries – Ghana, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam - for a Joint Learning Workshop on Universal Health Coverage in Gurgaon, India. The three day workshop served as a forum for participants to share their experiences implementing health reforms and learn from other countries.

Connected Expert(s): 
Alice Garabrant
Connected Expert(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino
Connected Expert(s): 
Maria Belenky
Connected Project(s): 
Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage

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

Joint Learning Workshop: Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage

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As a first step toward the development of an ongoing, multi-country cross-learning platform, several countries and their development partners convened a joint learning workshop in Delhi, India in February 2010. The workshop brought together practitioners from six countries to share learning around the successes and problem-solve around the challenges of implementing demand-side health financing reforms to expand health coverage.

Over the past decade, a number of national or state-level reforms have been implemented by governments that are committed to expanding health coverage through “demand-side” (third-party) financing models, to reach the poorest and informal sectors of their populations.  These reforms are ambitious in their goals, but challenging to implement successfully.  Many organizations and initiatives currently provide helpful policy assistance for and generate valuable information on these new and innovative reforms.

Funder: 
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Alice Garabrant
Gina Lagomarsino
Maria Belenky
Robert Hecht

Human Resources for Health: Costing the Philippine Pre-Service HRH Scale-Up Plans

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This report estimates the Philippine resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

This report estimates the Philippine resource requirements for scaling up the country’s workforce plans.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2008
R4D Author(s): 
Alison Ion
R4D Author(s): 
Marty Makinen
Funder(s): 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Connected Project: 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Version: 
1
Link to Publication-Resource: 
Available by request

Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability

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The Strengthening Institutions Program, a joint program of the Global Development Network and R4D, aims to strengthen policy debates around public expenditure issues in developing countries by providing support to emerging think tanks to conduct analyses of spending in the health, education, and water sectors.

 

Main Contact: 
Caroline Poirrier
Website: 
http://www.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=dfid_funded_project
Funder: 
Department for International Development (UK)
Status: 
Active
Staff Associated with Project: 
Caroline Poirrier
Courtney Heck
Courtney Tolmie

GHWA completed an application of its Resource Requirement Tool (RRT) in the Phillippines

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The GHWA Financing Task Force completed an application of its Resource Requirement tool (RRT) in the Philippines, with Program Officer Dessi Dimitrova leading the work in-country with her Philippines counterparts. The RRT is designed to assist in estimating the cost of countries’ Human Resources for Health scale-up plans. The RRT has already been applied in Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Uganda, and has been requested by various other countries.

Connected Expert(s): 
Marty Makinen
Connected Project(s): 
Global Health Workforce Alliance
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