Lawrence MacDonald is vice president for communications and policy outreach at the Center for Global Development. Full BioShowing posts on the Global Health Policy blog. View author posts on: Advance Market Commitment for Vaccines To Be Announced in RomeFebruary 7, 2007By Lawrence MacDonald in HIV/AIDS & Infectious Diseases, VaccinesReuters reported Wednesday that a group of wealthy countries including Italy, Britain, Canada and Norway will announce in Rome on Friday a $1.5 billion advance market commitment to purchase vaccines to prevent pneumococcus, which kills more than a than a million kids each year in the developing world, through illnesses such as pneumonia and meningitis. The report quoted the Italian economics ministry as saying that the program “aimed at saving millions of lives in the poorest countries and supporting their economic growth with new methods.” Comment »
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