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Novel approaches to vaccine development in lower-middle income countries

Ria Christine Siagian (Universitas Indonesia Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat, Depok, Indonesia) (Registration, Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Jorge Emilio Osorio (School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

International Journal of Health Governance

ISSN: 2059-4631

Article publication date: 18 October 2018

Issue publication date: 18 October 2018

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to identify, analyze and describe the novel approaches that affect vaccine development in lower-middle income countries (LMICs).

Design/methodology/approach

The vaccine market in LMICs currently focuses on traditional Expanded Program for Immunization vaccines instead of new ones. Unlike the successful introduction of those traditional vaccines, the introduction of new vaccines appears to be very slow, mainly due to financial issues. This paper systematically reviews a set of published papers on vaccine development and analyzes them against a specific region-setting framework.

Findings

Public–private partnership alone could not ensure long-term vaccine sustainability. Several factors that encourage domestic vaccine development were identified. The findings demonstrate that the regulatory approach of hybrid collaboration and market opportunity strategies can be a major breakthrough for domestic vaccine development in LMICs.

Research limitations/implications

Further research is required to include qualitative and quantitative methods for policy analysis, as all of the discussion in this research focused on literature reviews. The authors did not discuss how strategic decisions are affected from a political perspective and this needs to be specified in future research. Think tanks, considerably and fundamentally, affect policy ideas and decisions. However, important breakthroughs continue to be made at the same time.

Social implications

The development of vaccines in LMICs is expected to be a mechanism to overcome the inadequate access to vaccines in those countries, as solving this problem requires tackling issues from both the supply and demand sides.

Originality/value

This is a literature review that creates recommendation and approaches for domestic vaccine development in LMICs. This review aims to encourage LMICs to produce their own vaccines for sustainability of the vaccine access through vaccine development lifecycle, instead of expecting donor that provides funding and vaccines (vaccine access) in certain period of time. Donor is not always the solution for the problem, since vaccine development requires finance to function infrastructure. There are many efforts in revoking this, including World Health Organization through several reports; however, this effort still has many doubts. Therefore, the article would like to try to see this as a viable solution from the policy perspectives, with several examples to make recommendations more practical.

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Citation

Siagian, R.C. and Osorio, J.E. (2018), "Novel approaches to vaccine development in lower-middle income countries", International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. 23 No. 4, pp. 288-300. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHG-03-2018-0011

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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