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No. of Private Companies<br />
No.of Companies<br />
Orphanization of Primary (EPI) Vaccines<br />
20<br />
18<br />
16<br />
14<br />
12<br />
10<br />
8<br />
6<br />
4<br />
2<br />
0<br />
Public Sector<br />
Private Sector<br />
1971 1991 2001 2008<br />
Year<br />
• Decline in the firms making EPI vaccines<br />
• Decline of production in the public sector<br />
• Low private sector interest in EPI vaccines<br />
• Growing demand-supply gap in EPI vaccines<br />
• Private sector promoting expensive new vaccines<br />
• UNICEF acknowledged global shortages for EPI<br />
• Madhavi, 2005, PLoS Medicine<br />
25<br />
20<br />
EPI Vaccines<br />
New vaccines<br />
15<br />
10<br />
5<br />
0<br />
1971 1991 2001 2008<br />
Year<br />
Source: UNICEF, 2003
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