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Access/availability - LMICs

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Health Program: Grand Challenges in Global Health; Diarrhea & Enteric Diseases; HIV/AIDS; Malaria; Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health; Neglected Diseases; Pneumonia & Flu; Polio; Tuberculosis; Vaccine-Preventable Diseases; Funding for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
GAVI Alliance: Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS): The Hib Initiative; pneumoADAIP; Rotavirus Vaccine Program (PATH);
Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Medicine in Need (MEND): MEND Biotechnology Development;
UNICEF: Immunization:
Project Optimize (PATH/WHO): Trends in Vaccine Availability and Novel Vaccine Delivery Technologies: 2008–2025 (first prepared in July 2008)
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH):Vaccine Resource Library; Vaccines for the Future - e-newsletter;
Immunization; Cervical cancer vaccine; Influenza vaccines;Japanese encephalitis; Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI); Safe injection;
Vaccine delivery: Cold chain; Jet injectors; Uniject; Vaccine stabilization; Vaccine vial monitor (VVM);
Vaccine development: Enteric vaccine development; Meningitis Vaccine Project; Pneumococcal Vaccine Project; Rotavirus vaccine development;

Books, journalism

Much has been written about vaccines - we think these are particularly useful/interesting:

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis -Paul Offit
Hot shots - vaccines under the gun (Stanford Medicine, Spring 2009)
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver (Arthur Allen)

Clinical trials

Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Network
Clinicaltrials.gov (US NIH)
Clinical Trials Portal (IFPMA)
Current Controlled Trials (BioMed Central)
Malaria Vaccine Trials (MVT)
PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials (Public Library of Science)
WHO: Database for Vaccine Clinical Trial Sites

Economics/cost

Procuring vaccines for children - vaccine projections (UNICEF)
Vaccine price list (US CDC)

Journals, newsletters, publishers of reports

Many journals publish papers relevant to various aspects of vaccinology. These focus on it:

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (American Society for Microbiology)
Datamonitor
Expert Review of Vaccines (Expert Reviews Ltd)
Global Immunization Newsletters (GIN) (WHO)
Vaccine (Elsevier)

Key organisations

We are based in the UK and work with US-based clients, hence the UK/USA bias.

Packaging and delivery

Patient information

UK Immunisation (UK National Health Service)
US Allied Vaccine Group
US Every Child By Two: Vaccinate Your Baby
US Immunization Action Coalition (IAC): Vaccine Information
US National Network for Immunization Information (NNii)
US National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO)
US Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
US Vaccines and Immunization (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Regulation

Safety

Brighton Collaboration: Setting standards in vaccine safety
GAVI Alliance
Institute for Vaccine Safety (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA)
WHO: Vaccine quality | WHO Virtual Consultation on the Safety of Adjuvanted Influenza Vaccines (3 June 2009)

Travel

Last updated: 16 April 2010