We have strong evidence that this has played out in previous decisions to develop lifesaving products (see Advanced market commitments). At the very least there’s a strong burden of proof on this campaign to prove they are not exacerbating this stressor.
Bill Gates has made this exact point on a previous debate with MSF in 2015: This general thing where organisations come out and say, ‘hey, why don’t vaccines cost zero?’ – all that does is that you have some pharma companies that choose never to do medicines for poor countries because they know that this always just becomes a source of criticism. So they don’t do any R&D [research and development] on any product that would help poor countries. Then they’re not criticised at all because they don’t have anything that these people are saying they should price at zero[1]
We have strong evidence that this has played out in previous decisions to develop lifesaving products (see Advanced market commitments). At the very least there’s a strong burden of proof on this campaign to prove they are not exacerbating this stressor.
Bill Gates has made this exact point on a previous debate with MSF in 2015: This general thing where organisations come out and say, ‘hey, why don’t vaccines cost zero?’ – all that does is that you have some pharma companies that choose never to do medicines for poor countries because they know that this always just becomes a source of criticism. So they don’t do any R&D [research and development] on any product that would help poor countries. Then they’re not criticised at all because they don’t have anything that these people are saying they should price at zero[1]
Edit: Added second paragraph
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/27/bill-gates-dismisses-criticism-of-high-prices-for-vaccines
Could you say more about the strong evidence beyond the statements by Bill Gates?
See my other comment