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Obstacles to New Vaccine Adoption in LMICs

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

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Publications
Year Published: 
2011
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Marty Makinen
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Marty Makinen

Constraints to Vaccine Adoption in Lower and Middle Income Countries

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.

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Marty Makinen
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