The contract calls for regular vaccine deliveries through 2020.
Importantly, other systems of vaccine delivery besides clinics used for administrative evaluation can be identified and included in analysis.
Many health care experts concur that vaccine delivery is an area in which the state and the city need to better coordinate their respective areas of authority.
At this point, it is impossible to say whether the two-month delay in vaccine deliveries will merely irritate doctors and patients or threaten the nation's health.
PATH develops, adapts, and advances technologies focused on disease diagnostics, vaccine delivery, nutrition, reproductive health, water and sanitation, and other areas.
Such a program would replace our shamefully inadequate and unfair private system of vaccine delivery.
Vaccinia viruses re-engineered to express foreign genes are robust vectors for production of recombinant proteins, the most common being a vaccine delivery system for antigens.
Phase II funding also may be used for vaccine delivery, vaccine administration, and related communications planning and implementation.
Potential benefits include increased efficacy of immunization systems as well as reduced cost of vaccine delivery.
Experts are meeting this week to review data on polio eradication in the Americas, including a program this summer to improve vaccine delivery in Colombia.