Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Jan 2008
Estimating the costs of achieving the WHO-UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, 2006-2015.
To estimate the cost of scaling up childhood immunization services required to reach the WHO-UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS) goal of reducing mortality due to vaccine-preventable diseases by two-thirds by 2015. ⋯ In the 72 poorest countries, US$ 11-15 billion (30%-40%) of the overall resource needs are unmet if the GIVS goals are to be reached. The methods developed in this paper are approximate estimates with limitations, but provide a roadmap of financing gaps that need to be filled to scale up immunization by 2015.