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New incentives for vaccines needed

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January 25, 2006

Seth Berkeley, President of IAVI, on incentives to produce vaccines

"The whole system for vaccines is not aligned properly," Berkley told Reuters. "We have to find better ways to accelerate research, to finance research and to create incentives for pharmaceutical companies."He plans to lobby for such commitments in discussions with policymakers at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.

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