I rarely down-vote but you've earned it.
Actually read the article and then articulate a reason to disagree with the article and I'll un-down-vote you.
"Donations can also undermine long-term efforts to increase access to affordable vaccines and medicines. They remove incentives for new manufacturers to enter a market when it’s absorbed through a donation arrangement. We need competition from new companies to bring down prices overall — something we don’t have currently for the pneumonia vaccine.
Donations are often used as a way to make others ‘pay up.’ By giving the pneumonia vaccine away for free, pharmaceutical corporations can use this as justification for why prices remain high for others, including other humanitarian organizations and developing countries that also can’t afford the vaccine. Countries, which continue to voice their frustration at being unable to afford new and costly vaccines such as PCV, need lower prices as well to protect children’s health."
Maybe you somehow got a different understanding than I did.
It isn't that they couldn't use the donations or that they won't help people. Unfortunately, restrictions, both transparent and implied, means that they can't always use the donation where it is actually needed. Furthermore, those same donations actually hinder them from helping folks in the future.
Long term planning and learning from history and working with other charities and all that stuff - they actually do that.
chrisbennet|9 years ago
"Donations can also undermine long-term efforts to increase access to affordable vaccines and medicines. They remove incentives for new manufacturers to enter a market when it’s absorbed through a donation arrangement. We need competition from new companies to bring down prices overall — something we don’t have currently for the pneumonia vaccine. Donations are often used as a way to make others ‘pay up.’ By giving the pneumonia vaccine away for free, pharmaceutical corporations can use this as justification for why prices remain high for others, including other humanitarian organizations and developing countries that also can’t afford the vaccine. Countries, which continue to voice their frustration at being unable to afford new and costly vaccines such as PCV, need lower prices as well to protect children’s health."
alistairSH|9 years ago
I don't see that as a bad thing.
Broken_Hippo|9 years ago
It isn't that they couldn't use the donations or that they won't help people. Unfortunately, restrictions, both transparent and implied, means that they can't always use the donation where it is actually needed. Furthermore, those same donations actually hinder them from helping folks in the future.
Long term planning and learning from history and working with other charities and all that stuff - they actually do that.