A quarterly publication of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization		Download this issue (PDF document – 9 pages/approx. 101k) Download Adobe Acrobat (Required to read PDF documents)
July 2002 issue – Contents News Tough lessons – and rapid reform – for vaccine procurement system Partners back new approach to fast-track vaccine development Update Call for intensified research after pneumococcus trial surprises Special Feature Sustainable financing: the pioneers’ tales Advocacy for financial sustainability

Previous issues:

• March 2002 issue – Contents
• December 2001 issue – Contents
• October 2001 issue – Contents
• June 2001 issue – Contents
• March 2001 issue – Contents
• November 2000 issue – Contents
• August 2000 issue – Contents
• May 2000 issue – Contents

Immunization Focus is issued quarterly on the GAVI website.

It is intended to provide updates and topical debate about key immunization issues at national and international level. It can also be sent to you by email.

To receive a free email copy, please send an email message to majordomo@who.int, with « subscribe gavi » in the first line of your message.

If you do not have web access, paper copies of Immunization Focus, downloaded and printed from the web, can be obtained from your national UNICEF or WHO office.

Letters to the editor are welcome: please write via the
GAVI Secretariat,
c/o UNICEF,
Palais des Nations,
1211 Geneva 10,
Switzerland
or Gavi@unicef.org

Editor: Phyllida Brown

GAVI Editorial Adviser: Lisa Jacobs

Vaccine Fund Editorial Adviser: Victor Zonana

Publisher: Dr Tore Godal, GAVI Secretariat, C/O UNICEF, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Email: Gavi@unicef.org

External Editorial Board:

• Maria Otelia Costales, UNICEF, New York, USA;

• Shawn Gilchrist, Vaccine Industry Representative, Aventis Pasteur, Toronto, Canada

• Keith Klugman, Emory University, Atlanta, USA;
• P. Helena Mäkelä, National Public Health Institute, Finland;
• Philip Minor, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, United Kingdom;
• Khadija Msambichaka, Zimbabwe;
• Francis Nkrumah, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana;
• Paul Offit, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, United States, and Member, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices;
• Mohammed Ashraf Uddin, Chief Health Officer, Dhaka City Corporation, Bangladesh

The views expressed in Immunization Focus are not necessarily the views of the GAVI Board.

Designed and produced by: Synergy New Media, London N17 9LN, UK. www.synergynewmedia.co.uk