Reflections on the Addis Ababa Immunization Conference of 2016
The inter-ministerial conference on immunization held at AU headquarters in February 2016 came, by coincidence, almost exactly 30 years after the first international immunization conference I attended, convened by World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF in Mbabane in December 1985. Times have cha...
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The Pan African Medical Journal
2016-02-01
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| Series: | The Pan African Medical Journal |
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https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/23/63/pdf/63.pdf
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| Summary: | The inter-ministerial conference on immunization held at AU headquarters in February 2016 came, by coincidence, almost exactly 30 years after the first international immunization conference I attended, convened by World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF in Mbabane in December 1985. Times have changed. In 1985, there was no Gates Foundation, there was no Global Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) Alliance, and there was no global commitment to polio eradication. |
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| ISSN: | 1937-8688 1937-8688 |