Vaccine
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Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 869-1132 (22 January 2010)

Editorial
Governments, off-patent vaccines, smallpox and universal childhood immunization
Stanley Music

Abstract
WHO is now celebrating more than 30 years of freedom from smallpox. What was originally seen as a victory over an ancient scourge can now be viewed as an epidemiologically driven programme to overcome governmental inertia and under-achievement in delivering an off-patent vaccine. Though efforts are accelerating global vaccine use, a plea is made to push the world’s governments to commit to universal childhood vaccination via a proposed new programme. The latter should begin by exploiting a long list of ever more affordable off-patent vaccines, vaccines that can virtually eliminate the bulk of the world’s current vaccine-preventable disease burden.