Ideas to Action:
Independent research for global prosperity
The Financial Times recently published an opinion calling for more affordable cancer drugs for the world’s poor. Given the growing burden of cancer in developing countries, including across sub-Saharan Africa, it is right to pay more attention to the affordability of cancer treatments in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
In March, our team at the Center for Global Development and Office of Health Economics posted a consultation draft of a policy proposal for a Market-Driven, Value-Based Advanced Commitment (MVAC). The MVAC is a new mechanism that puts middle-income country governments in the driver’s seat to accelerate R&D for diseases that affect the world’s poor—specifically, the 10 million men, women, and children who develop tuberculosis (TB) disease each year and desperately need better therapies.
Innovation is a critical tool in the global fight against disease—especially for tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that primarily affects the poor and vulnerable and ranks among the top 10 causes of death in the world.
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