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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, delivers life-saving vaccines to children in the world’s poorest countries and encourages countries to assume increasing ownership of their immunization programs as their economies grow. Vaccination legislation may promote country ownership and immunization program sustainability. However, despite e...
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--The total price of immunization can be divided into vaccine procurement and operational costs. Operational costs include vaccine distribution, cold chain, and administration (staff and supplies) as well as training, education, and monitoring activities. These costs are difficult to measure because they are often integrated with other...
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--Legal provisions for vaccination include language in laws, regulations, ministerial or executive decrees, and other legal documents requiring the State, healthcare providers, or patients to take action to increase the population's uptake of vaccines.
--National decisions on compulsory versus recommended vaccination policies should...
Key points:
--Legal provisions for vaccination include language in laws, regulations, ministerial or executive decrees, and other legal documents requiring the State, healthcare providers, or patients to take action to increase the population’s uptake of vaccines.
--National decisions on compulsory versus recommended vaccination policies should...
Reviewing the methodological quality of economic impact studies that evaluate adult pneumococcal vaccination
A goal of the Global Vaccine Action Plan, led by the World Health Organization, is country ownership by 2020, defined here as the point when a country fully finances its routine immunization program with domestic resources. This article reports the progress made toward country ownership in twenty-two lower- and lower-middle-income countries engaged...
Degree of liver fibrosis largely determines treatment urgency for hepatitis C virus (HCV). This retrospective study examined
fibrosis stages and predictive factors in African Americans with HCV monoinfection and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/HCV
coinfection. Nearly 50% of patients had early-stage fibrosis in the study, despite the long duratio...
