Why Doctors Without Borders Is Turning Down A Million Free Pneumonia Vaccines From Pfizer

As it turns out, giving away medicine for free won’t be the way to end drug pricing fury.

The US director of Medecins Sans Frontieres, otherwise known as Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian group focused on supplying medical care in emergency situations around the world, penned a blog post Monday detailing the organization’s reasoning for not accepting free pneumonia vaccines from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. (A spokeswoman for Pfizer said it offered to donate 1 million vaccine doses.)

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