Meningococcal Vaccines
Research on meningococcal vaccines described by scientists at World Health Organization
Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 20th, 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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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-02-20)
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