Origins of the International Vaccine Institute

The Short History of the Founding of the International Vaccine Institute

According to the 25th Year Impact Report issued by IVI, the list of its accomplishments over the past quarter century was truly impressive. The report said that more than 3,000 vaccine professionals from all corners of the world received training through IVI's annual International Vaccinology Course. IVI was pivotal in the development of two major vaccines, an oral cholera vaccine and a typhoid conjugate vaccine, and was working on vaccines for 9 further infectious diseases. More than a million people have been vaccinated through IVI campaigns across Africa and Asia.

This book tells the short history of the founding of the International Vaccine Institute by the United Nations Development Programme from 1992 to 1997; the beginning of the idea, drive and struggles of the people who made it possible, and the support of scientists from all over the world regardless of politics.