A quarterly publication of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
May 2000 issue - Contents News Countries tell GAVI they mean business Briefing The right combination: update on vaccines that combine several antigens Special Feature Rotavirus vaccines: what next for the countries that need them most? Grassroots: Viewpoint Advocating immunization: how health professionals can make a difference Conference Report R&D briefing: news from the Third Annual Conference on Vaccine Research
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• August 2000 issue – Contents
• May 2000 issue – Contents

Immunization Focus is issued quarterly on the GAVI website.

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Editor: Phyllida Brown

GAVI Editorial Adviser: Lisa Jacobs

Publisher: Dr Tore Godal, GAVI Secretariat, C/O UNICEF, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Email: Gavi@unicef.org

External Editorial Board:

• Maria Otelia Costales, Country Representative, AVSC International, The Philippines;
• Keith Klugman, Director, Pneumococcal Diseases Research Unit, South African Institute for Medical Research, South Africa;
• P. Helena Mäkelä, National Public Health Institute, Finland;
• Philip Minor, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, United Kingdom;
• Khadija Msambichaka, Tanzania;
• Francis Nkrumah, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana;
• Paul Offit, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, United States, and Member, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices;
• Mohammed Ashraf Uddin, Chief Health Officer, Dhaka City Corporation, Bangladesh

The views expressed in Immunization Focus are not necessarily the views of the GAVI Board.

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