Medical Xpress November 5, 2024
The World Health Organization on Tuesday listed 17 pathogens that cause widespread disease and death, including HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, for which it said new vaccines were “urgently needed”.
The UN health agency said that it with its list was providing the first global effort to systematically prioritize endemic pathogens based on criteria including disease burdens, antimicrobial resistance risk and the socioeconomic impact.
“We need to do this because we would like to shift the focus from developing vaccines away from commercial returns towards regional and global health needs,” Mateusz Hasso-Agopsowicz, a WHO vaccine specialist, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Poland.
The study reconfirms longstanding priorities for vaccine research and development, including HIV, malaria and tuberculosis—three diseases...
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