โ Scribed by F. Assaad; G. Torrigiani
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The World Health Organization is playing a major international role in encouraging, coordinating, and where appropriate ,commissioning, research and development activities relevant to the control of high priority infectious diseases.
The Expanded Programme on Immunization would be the vehicle for the introduction of new or improved vaccines. In many parts of the developing world the health infrastructure is strained to breaking point by the heavv load of disease. It has failed to make the best use of the already available t'e6hnology. Immunization provides the simplest, least expensive and most effective intervention technology. Every effort is therefore needed to extend immunization coverage and lighten the burden on the health infrastructure and accelerate the overall development of the vast rural and peri-urban communities in the develop6ng world.
WHO has, on the one hand, to call on the most eminent scientists to give effective and simple .interventions, and on the other, .on the p,ol~iticians, social l~eaders, economic managers, medical profession and all public health workers to build up the infrastructure to put intervention technologies into action.
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