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. 2018 Apr 26;2:23. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/gatesopenres.12817.1

Table 5. Important or game changing products proposed by the Commission on Investing in Health that could help achieve a grand convergence in global health by 2035.

Diagnostics Drugs Vaccines
Short term
(available before 2020)
Important POC diagnostics
for HIV, TB,
malaria; POC
vital load for HIV
New artemisinin co-formulations for malaria; new
TB drug co-formulations *; curative drugs for
hepatitis C; new antivirals for influenza; long-acting
contraceptive implant; safe, effective, shorter
duration therapy for active and latent TB; new
drugs for NTDs * (with high efficacy and few side
effects)
Moderately efficacious (50%) malaria vaccine;
conjugated typhoid vaccine; staphylococcal
vaccine; heat-stable vaccines; new adjuvants
to reduce multiple dosing of vaccines; more
effective influenza vaccines in elderly people
Potentially
game-changing
Single encounter treatment for malaria: a one-dose
cure for vivax and falciparum
Medium term
(available before 2030)
Important Antimicrobials based on a new mechanism of
action
Combined diarrhea vaccine * (rotavirus,
enterotoxigenic E. coli, typhoid, shigella);
protein-based universal pneumococcal vaccine;
RSV vaccine; hepatitis C vaccine *
Potentially
game-changing
New classes of antiviral drugs HIV vaccine *; TB vaccine *; highly efficacious
malaria vaccine *; universal influenza vaccine

Abbreviations: POC: point-of-care; NTDs: neglected tropical diseases; RSV: respiratory syncytial virus; TB: tuberculosis

*The 18 “missing” products based on modeling the current pipeline (vaccines against HIV, TB, malaria, and hepatitis C; combined vaccine against multiple diarrheal diseases; complex NCE for TB; NCEs for 12 NTDs (based on the WHO list of NTDs at http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/mediacentre/factsheet/en).