04.03.10

Promises and Realities of the Advance Market Commitment

Bielefeld 29. April

Minimizing the number of poor children saved with $1.5 bn donations

Taxpayers in several G8 countries have given generously to a grand scheme that promises to save 7 million children from death by making pneumococcal vaccines available at affordable prices. But Health Action International, Médecins sans Frontières, Oxfam, and concerned experts believe the AMC scheme will save only 1/10th that many and will send 2/3rds of the money to extra profits at GSK and Pfizer for blockbuster vaccines. This talk will explain the original vision of an AMC and how it got derailed.

 

Donald Light is the Lokey Visiting Professor at Stanford University and a professor of comparative health care at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He researches justice issues in global pharmaceutical policy. He
has received the William Foote Whyte distinguished career award for applied sociology.

 

University of Bielefeld

Date: Thursday, 29.4. 2010
Time: 14:00-15:30
Room: H 11