Vaccine advance-purchase agreements for low-income countries: practical issues.
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چکیده
There are strong theoretical arguments for the creation of advance-purchase agreements to increase incentives for the development and production of vaccines for diseases concentrated in low-income countries. A Center for Global Development working group recently concluded that such agreements could be implemented successfully. We consider the practical economic and legal arrangements for such advance-purchase commitments. We identify several practical issues that we believe the public health and policy community should consider further in the design of an advance-purchase commitment.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Health affairs
دوره 24 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005