President's Perspective
State of the World's Vaccines and Immunizations
At the Sabin Vaccine Institute, we’re firm believers in the powerful role that vaccines and immunizations play in reducing needless suffering from infectious and neglected tropical diseases. Our convictions were confirmed in the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and World Bank’s “State of the World’s Vaccines and Immunizations” report released last month which affirmed the link between immunization and reducing poverty and mortality; improving general welfare and future productivity; preventing debilitating illness and disability; and achieving several Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular, reducing deaths of children under the age of five.
Featured News
Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative featured in Case Studies for Global Health
Sabin Vaccine’s Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative (HHVI) is one of 32 projects chosen for inclusion in Case Studies for Global Health released on November 20, 2009 by the Alliance for Case Studies for Global Health. The Alliance is a collaboration of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization's Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Global Health Progress (GHP), International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
This widely respected publication features case studies addressing a global health concern, i.e. related to diseases that have a disproportionate impact on developing countries, and is intended to educate organizations or individuals who are currently involved or are interested in helping to fulfill global health objectives.
We’re scientists. We’re researchers. And we’re advocates for a world free of needless suffering.
We develop new vaccines to combat neglected and global health threats, while simultaneously ensuring that existing and effective treatments get into the hands of people in need. We are particularly committed to saving lives in the world’s areas of greatest neglect, poverty, and destitution. We build bridges between leaders in science, academia, industry and government to conduct critical research to catalyze these solutions.
We’re a non-profit 501c3 with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other organizations and individuals dedicated to our mission of reducing human suffering from neglected and devastating diseases. Everyday, our work is lifting people out of poverty, improving and saving lives.
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