Vaccine Advocacy and Education

Singapore Battles Dengue Outbreak

05.14.13

This blog post originally appeared on the Dengue Vaccine Initiative Blog

Progress for Sustainable Immunization Financing

05.09.13

Sabin’s Sustainable Immunization Financing Program works with eighteen African and Asian countries to find ways to increase their national immunization program investments.

New York Times reports on price cuts for HPV vaccine

Submitted by Sabin on Thu, 2013-05-09 09:12

Thanks to Pap tests, fatal cervical cancers are almost unknown today in rich countries. But the disease kills an estimated 275,000 women a year in poor countries where Pap tests are impractical and the vaccine is far too expensive for the average woman to afford, so the price cut could lead to a significant advance in women’s health.

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Better Diagnostics Critical to the Fight against Typhoid

05.03.13

Originally posted on USAID's IMPACT Blog on Thursday, May 2 2013.

How purchasing power can help prevent child deaths: lessons for Asia from the Americas

Submitted by Sabin on Fri, 2013-04-26 13:52

In an article published today on Reuters, Sabin Executive Vice President Dr. Ciro de Quadros and Tony Nelson of the ROTA Council describe how actions taken by Latin American countries to protect children from rotavirus, the leading cause of diarhea hospitalizations and deaths, could be used in other regions of the world severely impacted by this killer disease of children.

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Global leaders support new six-year plan to deliver a polio-free world by 2018

Submitted by Sabin on Fri, 2013-04-26 13:14

Joint release by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WHO, UNICEF, Rotary Internatonal and the US Centers for Disease Control annouces new pledges to gloabl polio eradication efforts.