Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases Pdf

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Release: 2004-09-07
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0691121133
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world--diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis. AIDS, which is now usually treated in rich countries, still ravages the world's poor. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling these diseases and could dramatically improve health in poor countries. But developers have little incentive to undertake the costly and risky research needed to develop vaccines. This is partly because the potential consumers are poor, but also because governments drive down prices.In Strong Medicine, Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster offer an innovative yet simple solution to this worldwide problem: "Pull" programs to stimulate research. Here's how such programs would work. Funding agencies would commit to purchase viable vaccines if and when they were developed. This would create the incentives for vaccine developers to produce usable products for these neglected diseases. Private firms, rather than fundi Download Strong Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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