AEGiS-BKREV: Politics of International Health: The Children's Vaccine Initiative and the Struggle to Develop Vaccines for the Third World

(BKREV) Politics of International Health: The Children's Vaccine Initiative and the Struggle to Develop Vaccines for the Third World

State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246. 258p., bibliog., index. ISBN 0-7914-3999-2. $65.50.
William Muraskin. 1998.

"The Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI) was created with the goal of saving the lives of tens of millions of poor children in the Third World through the development of new and improved vaccines. The CVI was designed to bring together all the major participants in the international health community--scientists, national and international health bureaucrats, foreign aid donors, and private and public sector vaccine manufacturers." This book discusses the successes and failures of the first six years of the CVI. It is the study of a remarkable humanitarian vision with some real successes and many real failures. Although there is no vaccine for HIV, the efforts of the CVI to develop a workable structure for producing vaccines once they are developed will help immensely when a HIV vaccine is developed. This is a very readable book that covers all of the conflicts that have come into being since the initiative was created. It is a recommended book for all academic and medical libraries.

Keywords: Children's Vaccine Initiative; Vaccination of Children; Developing Countries; Vaccines

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