AFRO-NETS> The State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization

[Claudio Schuftan <aviva@netnam.vn>]

The State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization
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Jointly produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and 
the World Bank October 2002 

Available as PDF file [116p.] at:
http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/

or at UNICEF website at:
http://www.unicef.org/noteworthy/sowvi/sowv_en_2002_rev.pdf

Related press release: 
Low Investment in Immunization and Vaccines Threatens Global Health
http://www.unicef.org/newsline/02pr61sowv.htm

One in four of the world's children are not inoculated against com-
mon, vaccine-preventable diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, 
tetanus, and whooping cough. The report points out that while vac-
cines have saved billions of lives in the past century and are still 
the least expensive way of controlling the spread of infectious dis-
eases, they are not reaching the populations that need them most.

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Claudio Schuftan
Hanoi, Vietnam
mailto:aviva@netnam.vn

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