Control of Dual-Threat Agents The Vaccines for Peace Programme

by Geissler, Erhard; Woodall, John P.

• ISBN13: 9780198291725
• ISBN10: 0198291728
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-18
• Publisher: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Summary

The Vaccines for Peace (VFP) programme is designed to counter reservations about the military misuse of research into vaccines. It focuses on vaccines developed to combat those pathogens and toxins which can be used as weapon agents. In Control of Dual-Threat Agents a range of experts fromfields as diverse as biotechnology, vaccinology, international law, and diplomacy discuss the VFP programme.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction	p. 3
The Vaccines for Peace programme: executive summary	p. 6
Arms control, health care and technology transfer under the Vaccines for Peace programme	p. 10
The missing link in implementation of the BWC: the war against pathogens	p. 41
Vaccines for Peace: a political scientist's critique	p. 48
Control and co-operation in biological defence research: national programmes and international accountability	p. 56
Verification of the BWC	p. 67
The conversion of biological warfare research and development facilities to peaceful uses	p. 77
Viral vaccines: their evolution and current trends	p. 109
Human viral vaccines	p. 120
Viral vaccine research, development and production in the former Soviet Union: a brief review of the situation	p. 129
The Scientific and Production Association Vector: the current situation	p. 133
Vaccines against dual-threat agents: regulation and quality, issues and constraints	p. 139
Vaccines for biological defence: defence considerations	p. 151
Molecular aspects of the activity and design of antiviral agents	p. 163
Vaccines for public health: can Vaccines for Peace help in the war against disease?	p. 168
The Global Epidemiological Surveillance System and Vaccines for Peace: complementary initiatives in public health and weapon control	p. 176
The WHO global smallpox eradication programme: vaccine supply and variola virus stocks	p. 185
Options for the development and transfer of vaccine technology	p. 203
Funding and managing international programmes in biosciences and health care	p. 213
From BVI to VFP: towards a system of global biological security	p. 219
Annexe A. The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention	p. 243
Annexe B. Final Declaration of the Third Review Conference of the BWC	p. 246
Annexe C. The Biesenthal Vaccine Initiative (Vaccines for Peace) Biesenthal Consensus	p. 255
Annexe D. The Biesenthal Vaccine Initiative Mission Statement	p. 258
Annexe E. Mission Statement of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Project on the Global Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases	p. 259
Annexe F. US House of Representatives Resolution H.R. 5241	p. 261
SIPRI publications on CBW	p. 264
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