Media/Policy Watch
This section is intended to alert readers to substantive news, analysis and opinion from the general media on vaccines, immunization, global; public health and related themes. Media Watch is not intended to be exhaustive, but indicative of themes and issues CVEP is actively tracking. This section will grow from an initial base of newspapers, magazines and blog sources, and is segregated from Journal Watch above which scans the peer-reviewed journal ecology.

We acknowledge the Western/Northern bias in this initial selection of titles and invite suggestions for expanded coverage. We are conservative in our outlook in adding news sources which largely report on primary content we are already covering above. Many electronic media sources have tiered, fee-based subscription models for access. We will provide full-text where content is published without restriction, but most publications require registration and some subscription level.

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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/impact/
Accessed 30 April 2016
Vaccines: A Global Health Success Story That Keeps Us On Our Toes
| 26 April 2016
by Flavia Bustreo, WHO ADG and Vice Chair of Gavi, and Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO ADG , Health Systems and Innovation
Suspense and high stakes
It’s no secret that vaccines are considered one of the greatest global health achievements. Every year they avert an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths.

During the last two centuries, vaccines have eradicated smallpox, reduced global child mortality rates, and prevented countless birth defects and lifelong disabilities, such as paralysis from polio.
But, the success story of vaccination is not yet finished.

There’s still a book waiting to be written that’s guaranteed to keep all of us, not just global health experts, up at night. Fortunately, many of the chapters full of suspense, high stakes and perseverance are being written right now…
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Accessed 30 April 2016
6 Measles Cases Reported in Memphis Area, Exceeding Rest of U.S.
April 27, 2016 – By DANIEL VICTOR and CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
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TIME
http://time.com/
Accessed 30 April 2016
Historic Global Vaccine Rollout Could End Polio Forever
27 April 2016
by Walter Orenstein, Associate Director of the Emory Vaccine Center
‘Never before in the history of vaccines have we collaborated on this scale, this quickly’
Let’s start simple: Imagine you need to vaccinate a child against a terrible disease. You acquire and administer the correct dosage to protect that child from a debilitating virus. Now, imagine doing that across a whole city. You train health workers, distribute the vaccine to every health facility, explain the process to parents and monitor closely to make sure all children in the city are being reached. Now, do it for a whole district. A whole country. 155 countries. Do all of that in just two weeks. It’s happening right now, all around the world. Between April 17 and May 1, health workers, governments and communities are working together to execute the largest, fastest effort in history to rollout a vaccine in routine immunization systems, as one of the final steps to end polio forever…
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/home-page?_wsjregion=na,us&_homepage=/home/us
Accessed 30 April 2016
Advocates hold NYC protest over price of pneumonia vaccine
April 27, 2016 1:26 pm ET
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Accessed 30 April 2016
Congress heads out with no resolution on Zika, Puerto Rico
Congress accomplished relatively little in a short work period, missing deadlines on the budget and on helping Puerto Rico with its financial crisis as lawmakers began a weeklong break.
Andrew Taylor | AP | Business | Apr 30, 2016