You are watching Saving Lives Season 6 Episode 3

Saving Lives looks at the Advance Market Commitment Scheme, formulated by the GAVI Alliance, that aims to provide pneumococcal vaccines to the developing world. The scheme fixes the price of a drug or vaccine over a ten-year period. Is it going to deliver, what will be the result and how did global health institutions, and the big pharmaceutical companies manage to agree on such a deal?

• On site 04 August 2009
• Air date 04 August 2009
• Produced for BBC World

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