Deutsche Welle Discusses Balance Between For-Profit Drug Companies And Public Health Needs

Zulfikar Abbany of Deutsche Welle interviews Adrian Hill of the Jenner Institute on the issues and challenges involved in balancing the needs of for-profit pharmaceutical companies with public health goals.

Deutsche Welle: Is profit more important than public health?
In this audio episode of Spectrum, Zulfikar Abbany of Deutsche Welle interviews Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute, on “how drug companies weigh up profit and public health” (3/31).

Deutsche Welle: Balancing profits against public health in the search for innovative vaccines
“There is no cure and no vaccine for the Ebola virus, which has killed about 70 people in Guinea. Vaccine expert Professor Adrian Hill tells DW why some vaccines take time. It’s got to do with profit…” (Abbany, 3/31).

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