World Bank Group Partnerships: Moving Forward Together

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New vaccine demleopvent and introduction should be congratulated private sector manufacturers need reasured that there will be a demand for and profitability in their products. Unfortunately the systems costs of new vacine introduction can be 30-50% of the vaccine cost istelf (GAVI board papers and analysis 2005-2008), that can leave the countries with a substantial long term mortage. before deciding on new vaccine introduction and spending time and resources for advocacyu for relatively expensive technologies, more lives could be saved with less investment by turning to boring old early and exclusive breast feeding, links with water and sanitation, integrated approaches to demand side of primary health care. More complex than the magic bullet' of vaccines but more cost effective?

Thanks for your comment. To me, it is not a question of either vaccines or other basic public health interventions like those you mention: public health systems should be able to do both. In fact, there are synergies since vaccinations often bring families into contact with the health system and this way can trigger other preventative services.

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