142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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312050
Reducing Global Health Inequality among Lower-income Girls: Making HPV vaccines Affordable

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 2:54 PM - 3:06 PM

Donald Light, Ph.D. , Social Psychiatry, Rowan University-School of Osteopathic Medicine, Cherry Hill, NJ
Chaevia Clendinen, B.S, , Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Yapei Zhang , Molecular Biology/Program in Global Health, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Cervical cancer, now preventable with new vaccines, is the second or third leading cause of death among women worldwide. Of the 493,000 cases and 273,000 deaths a year, more that 80 percent occur in lower-income countries. The inverse relationship between the place where girls live and this cancer underlies a global health inequality that can prevented. But high listed prices ($360 per treatment) make these vaccines inaccessible to girls outside the 53 GAVI-eligible countries who can benefit from deep discount that the patent-holding manufacturers offered GAVI at their no-profit cost of $13.50 per 3-dose course.

With the support of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, we have undertaken original research on the manufacturing costs of Gardasil and Cevarix. With detailed documentation, we will present the results and their potential to make HPV vaccines affordable to girls in all the World Bank’s 4 income tiers at affordable, yet profitable prices. Cervical cancer can become history.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Analyze the costs of manufacturing Gardasil and Cervarix as HPV vaccines to prevent cervical cancer Assess the cost impact on prices for lower-middle and upper-middle, as well as upper income countries Design policies to reduce global health inequalities for women

Keyword(s): Cancer and Women’s Health, Accessibility

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a professor of comparative health policy and expert on pharmaceutical policy
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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