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Decision to Implement Hib Vaccine Influenced by Policies of Neighbouring Nations
The findings of the research have appeared in the March 16 edition of PLoS Medicine.
Lead author, Jessica Shearer, a former research associate at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, said: "This study is the first to measure how countries' decisions to adopt new vaccines are highly influenced by their neighbors' decisions.
"Countries seem to be engaging in an arms race to vaccinate-decisions which will save millions of lives."
For the study, the researchers analysed data on Hib use from 147 countries from 1990 to 2007. Models were developed to account for a nation's income and burden of Hib disease. According to the study, the receipt of GAVI support sped up the time on decisions to use Hib by 63 percent. The presence of two or more neighbouring countries using Hib accelerated adoption by 50 percent. An increase in price negatively affected the time it took a country to adopt Hib vaccine, which substantiated the findings of previous studies.
"While high vaccine prices hinder adoption, the absence of long-term, stable financing policies at the global level had an even more detrimental effect," added Shearer.
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