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World Immunization Week: Leaders and Laggards

4/22/13
Amanda Glassman

Immunization saves millions of lives, is among the most cost-effective health interventions ever developed, and has attracted a great deal of attention and funding from public and private donors in recent years.  Indeed, global health leaders have committed to making this the ‘Decade of Vaccines’ with the vision of delivering universal access to immunization by 2020, and the World Health Organization has put out a Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) to serve as a blueprint to achieving this goal.

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Taliban’s New Weapon: Childhood Vaccination

12/19/12
Amanda Glassman

This week, eight polio vaccination workers in Sindh and Peshawar have been killed in Pakistan during a three day anti-polio drive (see here). Last week in Afghanistan, two polio vaccinators were also killed. Suspicions of CIA involvement in the campaign have been identified as causes of the attacks. “Our teams are getting attacked, and we are having a hard time hiring health workers because they are worried about being called a spy,” said the Head of Medicine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province earlier this summer.

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Nice Job on Polio, but Don’t Forget the Other Diseases

1/14/12
Victoria Fan

Yesterday the global health community celebrated a much anticipated anniversary: one year has passed since India’s last reported case of polio. While still tenuous, this achievement is an important milestone for the international effort to attain polio eradication. If India can maintain this progress, then only three countries – Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan – will remain polio-endemic, down from 125+ countries worldwide in 1988. (As an aside, the WHO describes India as “one of the largest donors to polio eradication being largely self financed.” Are donations to oneself – or “unilateral” donors, if you will – the way of the future?)

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