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This book is the revised version of a doctoral thesis written at the Graduiertenkolleg Law and Economics at Hamburg University. It addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for tropical diseases and the lack of access to affordable medicines in poor countries. Tropical...
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This brief discusses policies needed to ensure equitable and universal access by all those in need globally to future vaccines for SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and treatments for the disease. It provides a snapshot of the vaccine and drug candidates in the current R&D pipeline. It...
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insights for evidence based policy making that should increase the effectiveness of any prospective COVID-19 vaccination …
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Background: Influenza vaccination is the most efficient and cost-effective method to prevent influenza. WHO …/CDC recommendations have never considered the effect of previous individual illness on determining future vaccination policy for that …’s patients have between a 3.1to 5 higher probability to become infected, showing that a vaccination policy that prioritizes last …
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OBJECTIVE: In this study, cost-effectiveness of the 23-valent pneumococcal vaccination was assessed in Catalonia (Spain … achieved with the intervention. Vaccination costs were calculated taking into account a cost of 11.51 per vaccine. Costs and … was obtained for the strategy consisting in the universal vaccination of individuals aged >5 years. The cost …
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Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...
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