NTD’s Vaccines: Approaches and Challenges

Vaccines and antimicrobials are among the most effective interventions in modern medicine, with far-reaching impacts on human health and disease. Effective vaccines are frequently unavailable in developing countries, and each year, millions of people die from vaccine-preventable and drug-treatable diseases. Furthermore, successful vaccines have yet to be developed for major global maladies, such as tuberculosis. In addition, technologies used to develop and manufacture vaccines are often outdated and not easily adaptable for rapidly responding to disease outbreaks, such as influenza. It can be difficult for manufacturers to successfully predict the dominant circulating influenza strains each season, and when new strains emerge suddenly, as in the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, rapid preparation for distribution of a new vaccine can be challenging.

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