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Date:12/11/2009

op a research agenda, it says.

The plan also identifies a need to:

  • Make more money available for research into vaccine safety and establish a permanent group to advise the federal government on vaccine safety.
  • Develop a national communications strategy to counter misinformation about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Efforts to date have been "disjointed and reactive, and not as effective as they should be," the report said.
  • Eliminate financial barriers to vaccination. The elderly and the poor have difficulty getting the vaccines they need, the report noted.
  • Advocate the use of health information technology to monitor diseases, rapidly detect safety problems and measure vaccine coverage. Tracking individual immunizations should be a key part of electronic record-keeping.
  • Give the existing National Vaccine Program Office a higher profile and more money to carry out its role as the coordinator of federal vaccine efforts and to implement the National Vaccine Plan, the committee said.

"We need something like this," said Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University, in New York City.

"We need a more coordinated vaccine policy," he said. "But just having it on paper doesn't mean anything."

Siegel has doubts that the proposed policy can be implemented and enforced. "There are extremely difficult obstacles -- fear, noncompliance, media hype and poor government choices," he said.

More information

For more information on vaccines, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.



SOURCES: Marc Siegel, M.D., associate professor, medicine, New York University, New York City; Dec. 11, 2009, teleconference with: Claire V. Broome, M.D., adjunct professor, department of global health, Rollins Scho
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