Availability web pages

World Bank background papers

Economics of AIDS vaccines. A number of links to World Bank policy papers

Medicines for Malaria Venture

WHO's new MMV is a joint public-private sector initiative which aims to develop antimalarial drugs and drug combinations for distribution in poor countries

Global Malaria Initiatives

Malaria, Economics, and Human Affairs

CID's Malaria, Economics, and Human Affairs project investigates the economic consequences of malaria endemicity, and the ways in which economic analysis may be brought to bear in ameliorating the enormous burden of this disease. The project is multidisciplinary in scope, drawing upon the input of clinicians, epidemiologists, public health specialists, scientists and economists from across Harvard's faculty and beyond.

Medicines sans frontieres access to essential medicines campaign

Jeffrey Sachs's article in the Economist proposing a purchase fund for vaccines

The Case for a Vaccine Purchase Fund

Global forum for health

Policy analysis of the use of hepatitis b, Haemophilus influenzae type b-, Streptococcal pneumonia- conjugate and rotavirus vaccines in national immunisation schedules

World Bank Health page

Public/private partnership: developing an oral treatment for visceral leishmaniasis

Setting the scene for miltefosine Phase III clinical trials: Nina Mattock reports from a kala-azar clinic in Bihar, India