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Vaccines for Peace: An Incentive for Developing Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Graham S. Pearson*
Affiliation:
Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment, United Kingdom
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Extract

The Article in the August, 1992 issue of Politics and the Life Sciences by Erhard Geissler proposing the establishment of an international Vaccines for Peace (VFP) program to undertake research on and production of vaccines against pathogens (and possible toxins) that pose natural health threats is warmly welcomed. VFP is designed to contribute to health care in developing countries and to enhance international cooperation in biotechnology; it would be administered by the World Health Organization (WHO). Such a program would bring real and tangible benefits to developing countries and encourage participation by such countries in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention signed in 1972.

Type
Continuing Dialogue—Vaccines for Peace
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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