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Doctors Without Borders Refuses Pfizer's Free Vaccines
Doctors Without Borders Refuses Pfizer's Free VaccinesWhen pharmaceutical giant Pfizer offered the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders a donation of one million doses of a pneumonia vaccine, the group responded with a shocking and counterintuitive answer: they said no.Doctors Without Borders @MSF_USA is making a valid point about drug pricing in spat with @Pfizer https://t.co/bjC9rm1wMx — Jason Cone (@jtcone1977) October 14, 2016The reason why illuminates the fundamental problem that drives the running battle between pharma companies and the patients they purport to be creating drugs for.Drugs are becoming unaffordable for certain parts of the world, so companies respond to decreased purchases by raising prices in order to make up the shortfall.
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Doctors Without Borders Spurns Pfizer Offer of 1 Million Free Vaccines
Doctors Without Borders Spurns Pfizer Offer of 1 Million Free VaccinesDoctors Without Borders has a message for pharma giant Pfizer pfe : We don't want your charity.The global health care philanthropy (known as Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF in much of the world) is turning down Pfizer's significant offer of one million free pneumonia vaccines to administer to at-risk children.Rejecting the no-cost medicines didn't come easy, explained Doctors Without Borders' U.S. executive director Jason Cone, but was ultimately necessary.
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Doctors Without Borders Refuses Vaccines from Pfizer
Doctors Without Borders Refuses Vaccines from PfizerThis week the medical-aid organization Doctors Without Borders refused a donation of one million vaccine doses from the pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer.It offered inoculations against a commonly fatal pneumonia—deliverable immediately, to people in need anywhere—and the doctors said no.The decision is the result of a fundamental impasse in modern healthcare.