Why Immunisation is Important & Local Implementation Issues in Malaysia
from Current Affairs Hosted by Morning Run
Immunisation averts an estimated 2.5 million child deaths a year and vaccination is recognised as one of the world’s most important public health measures. However, will the successful adoption of vaccination programmes be threatened by increasing costs of vaccines, patent issues and public scepticism? In the following interview, Dr Edith Maes (Mas), Senior Research Fellow at the Maastricht (Mas-trick) School of Management in The Netherlands, on the issues affecting immunisation in Malaysia. She discusses the economic benefits of national investments into immunisation, whether pharmaceutical firms should do more to make costly vaccines accessible to the poor, public skepticism towards immunisation and whether escalating costs of vaccines will dampen the further adoption of immunisation programmes.
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