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Advocacy & Education

Nearly two million young lives are saved by vaccines every year. Unfortunately, the cost of many critical vaccines makes them inaccessible to millions of people in the developing world who need them the most. Lack of awareness about global diseases and their devastating impact, and misinformation about disease rates around the world, pose real challenges to the introduction of life-saving vaccines in many areas around the world. Recent research shows vaccines to be highly cost-effective, both in terms of lives saved and in future labor-force productivity. The Sabin Vaccine Institute’s Advocacy & Education Program works together with leading health experts and organizations to promote awareness and increased utilization of both traditional and new, underutilized vaccines. The program also assists developing countries in identifying fiscally sustainable financing for their national immunization systems. Our initiatives include:

  • Advocacy Meetings – Sabin hosts events with government leaders, ministries of health in particular, to share the latest research on diseases and vaccine developments.
  • PACE (Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts) – PACE is leading the charge in promoting global awareness of pneumococcal disease and the pneumococcal vaccine.
  • Sustainable Immunization Financing – This Program is building fiscally-sustainable national immunization programs in the developing world.

Our Programs

International Vaccine Advocacy

Introducing vaccines for Pneumococcal disease, Rotavirus, and Human Papillomavirus (HPV)—vaccines considered standard in most developed countries—into the national immunization schedules of developing countries could reduce child mortality by two-thirds by the year 2015. The incredible potential of these and other vaccines are why the Sabin Vaccine Institute is dedicated to working with stakeholders to raise awareness of deadly childhood diseases and increase access to safe and proven vaccines.

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Sustainable Immunization Financing

The Sustainable Immunization Financing program uses an innovative, capacity-building approach to build effective, fiscally sustainable immunization systems in the developing world

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Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts (PACE)

Pneumococcal disease is a deadly infectious disease that kills 1.6 million people, including 800,000 children under age five, each year. Global awareness of this deadly disease, however, remains low. In 2006, the Sabin Vaccine Institute developed the Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts (PACE), a group of the world's leading experts on infectious diseases and vaccines, to raise awareness about pneumococcal disease and to advocate for its prevention through vaccination.

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Diseases We Fight

Pneumococcal Disease

Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae also known as pneumococcus. It is a leading killer of both children and adults around the globe.

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Rotavirus

Rotavirus is a viral infection transmitted via the fecal-oral route, and via respiratory secretions. It is the single leading cause of diarrhea among infants and young children in the world.

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Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

Human Papillomavirus is the primary cause of cervical cancer. Each year, 280,000 women die from cervical cancer, and another 470,000 are newly diagnosed with the disease, mainly in the developing world.

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Rubella

Rubella, also known as “German measles” or three-day measles, is caused by the Rubella virus and does not actually cause measles, but derives its name from a red rash often associated with the disease.

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Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 13 parasitic and bacterial infections that affect over one billion people, most of whom live on less than $2 per day. NTDs--found in Africa, Latin America, and Asia--promote poverty, as they disable, disfigure, and impair development and worker productivity.

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