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.)