Vaccines Still Cost Effective in Developing Countries

From this month's Health Affairs (Health Affairs, 25, no. 2 (2006): 348-356) we learn that "VACCINES ARE AMONG THE MOST EFFECTIVE and cost-effective interventions to improve child survival in low- and middle-income countries. Nevertheless, millions of children fail to receive the routine traditional six vaccines against diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT); polio; bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG); and measles. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2003 there were 528,400 cases of measles, 106,135 cases of pertussis, 13,831 cases of tetanus, and 6,654 cases of diphtheria