Topic: 2025 – Vaccine Access and Distribution
Country: India
Delegate Name: Leo Hessell
Vaccination is one of the most important methods of saving lives around the world. India aims to push childhood immunization rates to 90%, following its program, Mission Inradhanush. However, because of government underfunding and poorly structured procurement systems, physical access to affordable medicines, vaccines, and diagnostic facilities are a main concern. India recognizes these are also major obstacles in getting a more immunized population around the world. India is incredibly committed to finding easy, cheap, and effective solutions to the struggle of proper access to and distribution of vaccines.
India’s healthcare system is majorly made up of private providers due to the lack of strength in its governmental healthcare system. This means that access to vaccines may be incredibly expensive, as there is no baseline for how they should be distributed and priced. Ensuring reliable transportation to nations most in need is especially difficult due to some vaccines requiring certain temperatures, or being very fragile, or any other number of concerns. Finding ways to reliably get vaccines to where they need to go is a priority.
Because of the structure of India’s healthcare system, people receiving healthcare often need to pay large amounts of money, both to insurance companies and to receive the care directly. A possible avenue to making vaccines more accessible would be to monitor the companies manufacturing these vaccines to keep their prices down for distribution, or to have contributors take up some responsibility in stimulating that economy.
Creating programs to cheaply distribute vaccines to areas that need it is of utmost importance. India is prioritizing finding methods to get vaccines to areas that are in need. India hopes to work inside the United Nations Immunization Agenda for 2030 and expand further upon how to take action according to its guidelines.
India is looking forward to discussion on the topic.
Works Cited
Immunization Agenda 2030,
https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/strategies/ia2030
Framework for Action IA2030,
https://www.immunizationagenda2030.org/framework-for-action
India Health System Review,
https://wkc.who.int/resources/publications/i/item/india-health-system-review
https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/776885e5-8392-4f53-a19d-fb3c58740059/content
Immunization :: National Health Mission,
https://nhm.gov.in/index1.php?lang=1&level=2&sublinkid=824&lid=220
