title: 'Fight TB with BCG': mass vaccination campaigns in the British Caribbean, 1951-6.
abstract: Based on a wide range of primary materials, including WHO reports and Colonial Office correspondence, this article examines the UNICEF/WHO-funded mass BCG campaigns that were carried out in seven Caribbean colonies between 1951 and 1956. It explores the reasons behind them, their nature and aftermath and also compares them to those in other non-European countries and discusses them within a context of decolonisation. In doing so, it not only adds to the scholarship on TB in non-European contexts, which had tended to focus on Africa and Asia, but also to the relatively new field of Caribbean medical history and the rapidly expanding body of work on international health, which has paid scant attention to the Anglophone Caribbean and the pre-independence period.
authors.affiliation: Department of History, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK.
authors.forename: Henrice
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Altink
mesh_terms: D001531:Belize; D018595:Colonialism; D006172:Guyana; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D032541:Mass Vaccination / Q000266:history*; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000276:immunology*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014900:West Indies
keywords: Caribbean; Colonial Office; Tuberculosis; UNICEF; Vaccination; World Health Organization