Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has just announced that it will award part (US$75 million) of the remaining $262 million of the Advance Market Commitment (AMC)—a $1.5 billion fund that was launched in 2009 to pay for the introduction of ...

Global vaccines community must do everything it can to help introduce the new, more affordable pneumonia vaccine in all countries, especially middle-income countries

As Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, starts to commemorate its 20th year and launches a new fundraising appeal, MSF stresses that more must be done to make sure the 55 million children who do not have access to the pneumonia vaccine are ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just quality assured a third pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, that protects children against certain types of pneumonia and will be much more ...

Ahead of this week’s board meeting of Gavi, MSF calls on board members to immediately stop paying out funds from a remaining US$262 million subsidy to the pharmaceutical corporations Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the ...

Medical humanitarian organisation uses ‘Humanitarian Mechanism’ programme to access affordable versions of pneumonia vaccine to protect refugee children in Greece against the number one childhood killer worldwide

As 16 countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement meet this week in Incheon, Korea, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appealing to Korea and ...