Background Information

• The future of immunisation policy, implementation, and financing, The Lancet, 2011
  
• The Problems and Promise of Vaccine Markets in Developing Countries–Health Affairs, 2010
  
• Vaccine Financing Push Brings Results-World Bank, 2010
  
• Investing in vaccines for developing countries: how public-private partnerships can confront neglected diseases - Landes Bioscience, 2009
  
• Vaccine investments raise millions to save children’s lives–The Lancet, 2009
  
• Estimating the costs of achieving the WHO-UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, 2006-2015-WHO, 2008
  
• Government financing for health and specific national budget lines: The case of vaccines and immunization-WHO, 2008
  
• Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to action-Center for Global Development, 2005
  
• The Problems and Promise of Vaccine Markets in Developing Countries-Project HOPE, 2005
  
• Economics of immunization: a guide to the literature and other resources-WHO, 2004
  
• Financial challenges of immunization: a look at GAVI-WHO, 2004
  
• Review of Financing of Immunization Programs in Developing and Transitional Countries-ECON Centre for Economic Analysis, 2003
  
• Immunization Financing Options-GAVI Alliance, 2002
  
• Guidelines for estimating costs of introducing new vaccines into the national immunization system-WHO, 2002
  
• The evidence base for interventions to reduce mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases in low and middle-income countries – Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, 2001
  
• The International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm)
  

Useful Links

• Advanced Market Commitments for vaccines —The AMC website provides information on how AMCs support public health funding, especially in the development and manufacture of vaccines in developing countries.
  
• Center for Global Development —CGDEV’s website is a useful resource for developing strategies and policies to find solutions to challenges in developing countries. The website contains articles, and information on a variety of topics, such as education, and capacity building to help inform decision makers and the public.
  
• The International Finance Facility for Immunisation —IFFIm’s website details how the organization raises funds to support global health programs.
  
• World Bank: Millennium Development Goals —The World Bank’s MDGs page provides information on the World Bank’s involvement in reaching the MDGs set by the United Nations.
  
• Asian Development Bank (ADB) —ADB is an international development finance institution whose mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people.
  
• Results for Development Institute —The Results for Development page showcases the work the organization has done to bring research and development into public policies and the decision-making process. Some of their resources provide information on how funding can help strengthen health systems.
  

Additional Resources

• GAVI Campaign–Immunize Every Child —The GAVI Campaign’s website provides updates on funding support for various immunization programs around the world, and information on immunization issues, especially in developing countries.
  
• WHO-Immunization Financing —The WHO’s Immunization Financing contains a number of useful articles and tools pertaining to financing immunization programs in developing countries.
  
• Sabin Institute —Sabin’s Sustainable Immunization Financing page details the value of investing in immunization programs, and provides resources on sustainable funding for immunization programs.
  
• WHO-The cost of immunization programmes in the next 10 years —A report by WHO on the costs of immunization programmes.
  
• PATH-Economics of immunization: a guide to the literature and other resources —Within the context of immunization financing, this guide identifies literature and web resources on costing, cost-benefit analyses, financing, policy issues, tools, and other related topics.
  
• WHO-Immunization financing indicators —The immunization financing indicators page analyzes whether or not WHO member-states consider immunization in their national budgets.