Designing vaccines for developing-country populations: ideal attributes, delivery devices, and presentation formats

This article discusses the importance of designing vaccine products with attributes that will help to mitigate challenges that immunization programs are facing as they introduce new vaccines. The handling, management, and use of vaccines is becoming increasingly complex; placing an increased burden on health care professionals who distribute and deliver vaccines and on supply systems that need to transport, manage, store, and track disparate products. Now is the time to influence future vaccine products to mitigate the complexity and pave the way for success.