Comments on: Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation needs to open up to civil society http://reddot.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2009/11/global-alliance-for-vaccines-and-immunisation-needs-to-open-up-to-civil-society/ We work in over 52 countries around the world, including the UK. Our bloggers are on the ground responding to emergencies across the globe, volunteering, fundraising with fantastic inovative ideas, campaigning, researching, and much more. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Lina http://reddot.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2009/11/global-alliance-for-vaccines-and-immunisation-needs-to-open-up-to-civil-society/#comment-215173 Lina Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:39:38 +0000 http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/?p=3980#comment-215173 Big help, big help. And seupralitve news of course. Big help, big help. And seupralitve news of course.

]]> By: Owen Barder http://reddot.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2009/11/global-alliance-for-vaccines-and-immunisation-needs-to-open-up-to-civil-society/#comment-5720 Owen Barder Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:51:35 +0000 http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/?p=3980#comment-5720 With respect, these seem to me to be a very set of policy suggestions. We can reduce the cost of vaccines, by making purchasing more predictable and making vaccine companies less vulnerable to predatory purchasing. But driving down the price by reducing the returns to vaccine companies is a recipe for reducing the engagement of the pharmaceutical industry in developing countries. And that won't be good for the world's poor in years to come. I have set out the argument in nmore detail in a recent blog post http://www.owen.org/blog/2757 (the timing is coincidental - I had not seen your suggestions here before I wrote those thoughts). best wishes Owen With respect, these seem to me to be a very set of policy suggestions.

We can reduce the cost of vaccines, by making purchasing more predictable and making vaccine companies less vulnerable to predatory purchasing.

But driving down the price by reducing the returns to vaccine companies is a recipe for reducing the engagement of the pharmaceutical industry in developing countries. And that won’t be good for the world’s poor in years to come.

I have set out the argument in nmore detail in a recent blog post
http://www.owen.org/blog/2757

(the timing is coincidental – I had not seen your suggestions here before I wrote those thoughts).

best wishes
Owen

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