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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The timeline for getting new vaccines to poor countries that need them most is being shortened from decades to less than two years, an alliance of U.N. agencies and government and private groups said Friday.
Vaccines for diseases such as hepatitis B, measles and polio have typically taken 15 to 20 years from the time they are developed in Western countries until they are available in poor countries.
But according to the GAVI Alliance, a vaccine licensed last year in the United States and Europe against rotavirus, which causes diarrhea and dehydration, will take less than two years from the laboratory to village clinics with new international funding.
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