Nu kommer hver enkelt leverandørs priser på bordet og offentliggøres på UNICEFs hjemmeside
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is for the first time publicizing how much drugmakers charge it for vaccines, aiming to spark price competition as costs keep rising.
On Friday, UNICEF posted on its website the actual prices that it has paid individual drugmakers for 16 vaccines purchased over the last decade. UNICEF hopes that announcing the costs will cut prices, which would enable the organization to vaccinate more children and save more lives.
Prices posted by UNICEF show a wide variation in what different companies have been charging the agency, with Western companies in some cases charging far more than Indian suppliers.
UNICEF has long published the average price it paid manufacturers for each type of vaccine, but not the price paid to each individual manufacturer. That was partly because companies were reluctant to disclose that detail.
UNICEF paid 747 million US dollar for vaccines last year, buying over two billion doses for 58 percent of the world’s children.
Shanelle Hall, director of UNICEF’s supply division and the driving force behind the new transparency policy, said she hoped to extend it to other goods that UNICEF buys, including mosquito nets, diagnostic kits, essential medicines and ready-to-eat foods for starving children.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
