Developed countries announced plans to develop and finance the purchase of vaccines

Last Friday, officials from some developed countries began a long-awaited plan. This plan aims to support and fund the development of vaccines for children in poor countries and developed countries will buy these vaccines once they are produced.

(Photo: derstandard.at) In the early stages of the program, also known as the Commitment to Market Program, developed countries will buy pneumococcal vaccines, which have a preventive effect. Pneumonia in children, is a disease that can be lethal. This vaccine is not suitable for use in developing countries because it is expensive and the type being circulated has no protective effect against some common strains in poor countries.

According to the World Bank and GAVI - Global Vaccine Fund - two technical support units for the program, this program is funded through contributions from the governments of developed countries at a cost of 1, $ 5 billion, and by 2030 it could help prevent 5.4 million child deaths. Since the late 1990s, pneumonia vaccine for children has been widely used in the United States and other developed countries.

Under the new plan led by the Italian government, in the future, developed countries pledged on behalf of poor countries to buy vaccines at the request of poor countries on the condition that these vaccines comply with the standards of the plan. This contribution also helps encourage drug manufacturers to manufacture their own vaccines for use in developing countries as well as increase production to meet market demand.

Often, markets in poor countries do not provide such incentives because most of these countries are unable to afford the vaccine themselves. Countries participating in the Commitment to Market Plans have decided to start the program with the pneumococcal vaccine because it can be quickly marketed.

Speaking at the meeting in Rome to introduce this program, Ministry of Planning and Investment Italian Finance Minister, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (photo: unibg.it) Italian Finance Minister, Mr. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, said: " This program " creates market incentives where the private market Can not do it.' Queen Rania of Jordan, Gordon Brown, British Finance Minister, and World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz also attended the meeting.

Italy, Canada, Norway, Britain and Russia have pledged money. Mr. Heatherwick Ntaba, former Minister of Health of Malawi, said: 'Today is a great day for poor women and children of the world.'

The Commitment to Market Program is one of the new programs of rich countries that aims to bring better health care to developing countries, especially Africa, which is suffering from - HIV and AIDS destruction.

In addition, France also has an initiative to use taxes on airlines to buy drugs for poor countries.

However, this is the first program focused on vaccines to prevent disease, which in this case is pneumonia. In the future, this group hopes to start similar activities for malaria vaccine and other diseases.

Mr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, director of the Physician's Non-Borders Organizational Drugs Program, said: 'This is really a challenge to see if we can implement the mechanisms. new to be ready to have vaccines that developing countries can afford to buy them. '

Linh Anh