Gavi pneumonia vaccine pledge wins qualified support from MSF

4 June 2020
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One of the announcements made by Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, around Thursday’s Global Vaccine Summit, has been around its donation to the Serum Institute of India.

Gavi will award $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 the pneumonia vaccine in developing countries - to the Indian manufacturer.

The Serum Institute received quality approval for the pneumonia vaccine in December 2019, joining US drug giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and UK-based GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK), which already had their vaccines at the brink of market entry when the AMC was launched, and have received the bulk of the $1.5 billion subsidy pot, on top of the base price that they charge Gavi.

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