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The Global Capacity for Manufacturing Vaccines: Prospects for Competition and Collaboration Among Producers in the Next Decade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Anthony Robbins  and
Isao Arita
Anthony Robbins
Affiliation:
Boston University School of Public Health
Isao Arita
Affiliation:
Agency for Cooperation in International Health
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Abstract

Can the world respond to the demands of the Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI) to produce large quantities of affordable vaccines that have never been manufactured previously? Vaccines for the world's birth cohort of 150 million will continue to be produced in the countries that use the greatest part of the global vaccine supply. Thus, the CVI will rely on increased self sufficiency in vaccine production in the developing world and “shared development” of new and improved vaccines. The CVI's goal is to direct product development to meet the needs of immunization programs, but it must not neglect production. Thus, from the start, investment at the front end of the development and production sequence requires attention to the ultimate production capacity.

Type
Special Section: Vaccines and Public Health: Assessing Technologies and Public Policies
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 39 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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