Guidance
Rapid access to investigational vaccines: an analysis of access provisions
The world’s largest pharmaceutical companies are developing promising new vaccines to tackle some of the world’s highest-burden diseases. This pipeline includes a group of first-ever vaccines, which, if successful, will finally make it possible to immunise children against diseases such as dengue, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Yet, at least one key question remains: how soon will
these vaccines be accessible and affordable in the countries that shoulder the largest burdens from these global killers? For the majority of the pipeline, it is not clear whether companies are taking measures to ensure future vaccines will be affordable and available in sufficient quantities to low- and middle-income
countries. To help payers and procurers plan ahead, companies are strongly encouraged to put access strategies and access provisions in place early in the R&D process for vaccines, and to offer details of these provisions and their planned implementation.
Authors
Languages
- English
Publication year
2015
Publisher
MSF
Type
Guidance
Categories
- Programme management
Diseases
- HIV-AIDS
Organisations
- MSF
Tags
- New vaccine introduction
- Planning, budgeting and financing