Africa: Gavi Needs to Offer Lower Vaccine Prices to Humanitarian Actors

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The GAVI Alliance should systematically extend the prices it obtains for vaccines to humanitarian actors that are often well placed to reach unvaccinated children, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today at the GAVI Partners Forum meeting in Tanzania.

Currently, humanitarian actors such as MSF are not able to access these prices, and are left to negotiate access to vaccines on a cumbersome case-by-case basis.

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