Missing the real issue about the pneumo AMC

Opinion June 09, 2008

The Advance Market Commitment that donors aim to use to promote vaccines for poor children is really not about markets at all. It is a one-time, pre-fixed buyout. If donors had started with the question of how to maximize the number of poor children saved, the answer would not be an AMC, writes Donald Light.

Donald Light is Professor of Social Medicine and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University of Liverpool.

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Missing the real issue about the pneumo AMC

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