Group Urges Drug Companies to Make Vaccines for Poor Countries

A group of economists, public health experts and lawyers has proposed a way to convince drug companies to develop lifesaving vaccines for poor countries, where market demand is weak and profits low. Their plan would obligate governments and other donors to purchase the vaccines for distribution, but only if companies agree to test and produce them. It is no secret that most of the world's drug development is not for diseases that affect the world's poor masses.

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