Vaccination, quality control, and vaccine production in Brazil since 1960

Abstract

The article focuses on the Brazilian government's role in implementation of immunization policies and in the emergence of a government structure involving production and quality control of immunobiologics. It examines Brazil's National Immunization Program, creation of the National Institute for Quality Control in Health, and the Program for Self-Sufficiency in Immunobiologics. It also takes a general look at the political picture that influences participating actors and at changes in Brazil's demographic and epidemiological profile.