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Meningococcal Vaccines

Research on meningococcal vaccines described by scientists at World Health Organization

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 19th, 2008

Researchers detail in 'Estimating the costs of achieving the WHO-UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, 2006-2015,' new data in meningococcal. "To estimate the cost of scaling up childhood immunization services required to reach the WHO-UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS) goal of reducing mortality due to vaccine-preventable diseases by two-thirds by 2015. A model was developed to estimate the total cost of reaching GIVS goals by 2015 in 117 low-and lower-middle-income countries," scientists in Geneva, Switzerland report.

"Current spending was estimated by analysing data from country planning documents, and scale-up costs were estimated using...

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