From Google Scholar+ [to 31 Jjanuary 2015]

From Google Scholar & other sources: Selected Journal Articles, Newsletters, Dissertations, Theses, Commentary

Special Focus Newsletters
TBVI (Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative) Newsletter – January 2015
– New TBVI senior leadership
– 24.6 million euros for TB vaccine R&D

Dengue Vaccine Initiative Newsletter – First Edition 2015
– 2014 Dengue Vaccine Candidates in Review
Lancet Oncology
Volume 16, No. 2, p133–134, February 2015
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/issue/current
Comment
Towards a global cancer fund
Franco Cavalli, Rifat Atun
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(15)70012-4
Summary
The annual death toll from cancer has risen by almost 40% since 1990,1 and this increase is set to continue. Deaths from cancer are projected to increase from the present level of around 8 million a year to more than 13 million by 2030, with most of the burden being in poorer countries.2 Once a problem almost exclusive to rich countries, cancer is rapidly becoming a leading cause of death and disability in poor countries, where cancer survival is much lower than in the affluent parts of the world—eg, breast cancer survival in the Gambia is below 15%.

… In 2014, leading international experts met at the WOF to promote sustainable new models of public–private partnership to find new cancer therapies that could make a real difference in patients worldwide. … Such a fund should draw on the experience of the three innovative financing mechanisms that have reached a global scale, namely the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, GAVI, and UNITAID. These organisations have introduced novel approaches in each step of the innovative finance value chain—ie, resource mobilisation, pooling, channelling, resource allocation, and implementation—and integrated these steps to successfully mobilise more than $30 billion in 10 years from diverse sources, which they have channeled rapidly to low-income and middle-income countries to address HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and vaccine-preventable diseases in children…