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Publication type: Journal Article

Jack A.
Donors agree financial arrangement to stimulate vaccine development
BMJ 2008 Apr 12; 336:(7648):797
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/336/7648/797?etoc


Abstract:

An innovative financial mechanism designed to boost the development and distribution of vaccines in the developing world is set to launch next year, after publication of an expert report this month on how it will work.

Under the advance market commitment scheme, donor countries promise to buy specified vaccines from the companies that develop them for use in poor countries, which guarantees firms a market for their products.

The first advance market commitment set to be formally approved in June by donors that are contributing $1.5bn (£750m; 960m) is designed to stimulate the production and supply of vaccines for pneumococcal disease, which is estimated to kill 1.6 million people a year.

Pneumococcal vaccines already exist in richer countries, but their price and the different nature of the disease in other parts of the world mean that they are not used elsewhere.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909