2010 National Vaccine Plan

2010 National Vaccine Plan: Protecting the Nation's Health through Immunization

This document, released by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, provides suggestions on how to improve vaccine programs in the United States in order to better defend against infectious diseases. The recommendations include the development of a broad national vaccine safety science agenda, launch of a comprehensive website about vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Additionally, "the scope of the Plan is broad and addresses vaccines and key vaccine-related issues for the U.S. and its global partners. It provides a strategic approach for preventing infectious diseases and improving the public’s health through vaccination for the coming decade. Although vaccines are being developed to treat diseases and conditions (therapeutic vaccines) and for non-infectious diseases, the focus of this Plan is on vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases as guided by the law that established the National Vaccine Program (NVP)."

via hsdl.org