Making Vaccines Available to Other Countries Before Offering Domestic Booster Vaccinations

GSL Journal of Vaccines and Vaccinations

Received: June 26 2017; Accepted: July 13 2017; Published: July 17 2017 challenge studies in healthy adults with potentially attenuated viruses? Second, influenza vaccines are recommended not only for healthy adults but also for children, the elderly, pregnant women, anyone with high-risk conditions and those with chronic medical conditions; it is not known whether the HI titer of 40 is equally...

Making plasma derived medicines available

Making Combination Vaccines More Accessible to Low-Income Countries: the Antigen Bundle Pricing Problem

Combination vaccines have become the preferred choice for immunizing children in highand middle-income countries. However, these new vaccines are prohibitively expensive for lowincome countries, causing them to rely on older, less-expensive vaccines. This product divergence decreases economies of scale for the purchase of vaccines and eliminates the financial incentive for manufacturers to main...

Immune responses of elk to initial and booster vaccinations with Brucella abortus strain RB51 or 19.

Previous studies have suggested that currently available brucellosis vaccines induce poor or no protection in elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni). In this study, we characterized the immunologic responses of elk after initial or booster vaccination with Brucella abortus strains RB51 (SRB51) and 19 (S19). Elk were vaccinated with saline or 10(10) CFU of SRB51 or S19 (n=seven animals/treatment) and boos...

Making Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation Available to Patients in Developing Countries: The Mexican Experience

Non-myeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation (NST) has been one of the most exciting developments in the treatment of hematologic malignancies in the last years. Since 1999, we have chosen to employ in México a regimen to conduct NST, introducing some changes with the main goal of decreasing the cost of the procedure and in turn, making it available to a larger number of patients in d...