MSF: Global vaccines community must urgently support roll out of new more affordable pneumonia vaccine
January 29, 2020Global vaccines community must do everything it can to help introduce the new, more affordable pneumonia vaccine in all countries, especially middle-income countries Barcelona – As governments and the global vaccines community gather this week at the first ever Global...
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Access to medicines: Gavi must ensure more children get new, more affordable pneumonia vaccine
January 21, 2020Geneva, 21 January 2020 — As Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, starts to commemorate its 20th year and launches a new fundraising appeal, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stressed that more must be done to...
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MSF: $262 million subsidy should not go to pharma giants Pfizer and GSK for pneumonia vaccine
December 4, 2019New Delhi - Ahead of this week’s board meeting of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in New Delhi, India, Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on board members to immediately stop paying out funds from a remaining US$262 million subsidy...
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Indian patent office delivers major blow to affordable pneumonia vaccine hopes
August 22, 2017Geneva/New York/New Delhi, 22 August 2017 – Hopes for improved access to an affordable pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) that safeguards both children and adults from pneumonia were dealt a major blow after the Indian patent office granted a patent to...
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