Doctors Without Borders Calls on GSK and Pfizer to Slash Pneumo Vaccine Price to $5 Per Child for Poor Countries

by Gary Kopycinski on January 20, 2015

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In July 2014, MSF held the first of three rounds of a mass vaccination campaign in Adjumani district of northern Uganda to protect children from deadly respiratory infections. Photo By: Sydelle WIllow Smith

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer to slash the price of the pneumococcal vaccine to US$5 per child in developing countries, ahead of a major vaccination donor conference in…