MSF's Jason Cone describe why Pfizer's offer of donated vaccines is a poor substitute for lowering the high price of the medicine in order to make it accessible to people in desperate need of the vaccine in poor countries.
This article, by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada executive director Stephen Cornish, first appeared in the Globe and Mail newspaper:
From September 25 to 27, 193 world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York City to bid farewell to the Millenium Development Goals and adopt the Sustainable Development Goals, the next 15-year blueprint for international development, which includes health. Governments, global institutions, funders, civil society and the private sector will set their health priorities and agenda and determine health policies and plans based on this new 15-year blueprint that will affect the health needs of our patients and vulnerable population’s across the world.
