Millions of babies and children could soon be protected against the deadly disease pneumonia. Two leading drug companies have agreed to supply vaccines against pneumococcal disease to the world’s poorest countries at a reduced price. Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline signed the historic Advance Market Commitment agreement in March. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, or GAVI, helped negotiate the deal. The group says the low cost vaccines could save as many as seven million lives by the year twenty thirty.
These are all reasons why GAVI chose the pneumococcal vaccine for its first Advance Market Commitment project. The private-public partnerships are designed to increase the availability of low cost vaccines in poor areas.
Farmers planted more of their best crops, or cash crops, for export. They planted fewer food crops for local use. Less costly rice came into the ports of Gambia and Ivory Coast. Many city people in those countries liked the cheap rice more than rice grown locally.
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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer are the first two drug companies to take part. They have agreed to provide thirty million doses of the vaccine each year for ten years. The first twenty percent of the vaccines will sell for seven dollars a dose. The remaining eighty percent will cost three dollars and fifty cents per dose. That is ninety per cent less than current prices in the United States.
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
Today we continue telling about a report by three geography experts from American colleges. They studied food security in Gambia, Ivory Coast and Mali over thirty years.
(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 29Mar2010)
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0.2 援助西非三国—Study Documents Effects of Market Policy Changes on Three West African Countries
Mali suffered less than Gambia and Ivory Coast during the food crisis of 2008.
Private investment in agriculture largely replaced government help. In some places, roads and mills built to help farmers fell into ruin. Protectionist import taxes and farm supports were cut.
0.5 历史性的医疗保健计划—Historic Measure Expands Health
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Mister Rowland says the agreement is a huge achievement for the developing world. He says vaccination is a life or death question for poor people. If you can vaccinate a child to prevent a disease from happening，it is a lot more cost effective than it is to treat that disease afterwards.
Two leading drug companies will supply vaccines to the world’s poorest countries at a reduced price.
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
Researcher Judith Carney works at the University of California at Los Angeles. She said buying the cheaper imported rice worked well until the worldwide food crisis of two thousand eight. Then, many people could not pay for an important part of their diet.
And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report. For transcripts and podcasts of our programs, along with captioned videos and a lot more, visit us at . You can also find us on Facebook.
Last year, the governments of Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia and Norway joined with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They provided one and a half billion dollars to launch the pneumococcal vaccine project. Jeffrey Rowland is with the GAVI alliance. He says the money helps to persuade drug makers to take part in the project.
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0.4 鲜见女性科学家—Too Few Women in Science . . . . . . . . . 9
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0.1 治疗儿童肺炎—Protecting Children Against Pneumonia . . . 3
0.2 援助西非三国—Study Documents Effects of Market Policy
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