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Questioning the 1.5 billion dollar vaccine deal

Opinion April 25, 2008
Médecins Sans Frontières does not deny the rationale of the Advance Market Commitment: a new vaccine against pneumococcal disease is desperately needed. Over a million people, mostly children, die each year of pneumonia, bloodstream infections and meningitis caused by pneumococcal bacteria. But why is it so expensive?
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Tido von Schoenangerer, Director of Campaign for Essential Medicines at MSF.
Photo by Sebastian Bolesch

 

 

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