Pharmaceutical companies have long been reluctant to invest in producing new vaccines for the developing world because they have little prospect of earning an attractive return. One way to stimulate such investment is the use of an advance market commitment, an innovative financing program that guarantees manufacturers a long-term market. Under this arrangement, international donors pay a premium for initial doses sold to developing countries. In exchange, companies agree to continue supplying the vaccine over the longer term at more sustainable prices. This article provides a preliminary economic analysis of a pilot advance market commitment program for pneumococcal vaccines, explaining the principles behind the program’s design and assessing its early performance. Spurred by the advance market commitment–and other contemporaneous initiatives that also increased resources to vaccine suppliers–new, second-generation pneumococcal vaccines have experienced a much more rapid rollout in developing countries than older first-generation vaccines.
Economic Perspectives On The Advance Market Commitment For Pneumococcal Vaccines
폐렴구균 백신에 대한 선구매 약정의 경제적 관점
[Category] 폐렴구균 감염증,
[Article Type] journal-article
[Source] pubmed
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