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Especially if the vaccine turns out to be storable at normal temperatures in extensive real-world use, Edwards’ spray could have a much wider reach with a dramatically smaller price...
Edwards’ spray solves many of the problems with the current BCG method. It doesn’t require needles—thus eliminating the HIV risk—and may also prove more effective than injecting needles under the skin. The spray immunizes directly through the lungs, which is the route of infection for TB. The new method may also depend less on refrigeration...
...sales of Edwards’ TB spray, the University will forgo all of the royalties it earns in developing countries, and a major share of its royalties in developed countries, as well. Harvard will divert those earnings back to MEND, says Isaac Kohlberg, who leads the University’s licensing office...
...such firms are wary of committing resources to markets that hold little promise of a return on their investment. And with most TB victims living in Africa and Southeast Asia, Edwards’ spray is far less lucrative than drugs that target ailments such as high cholesterol and heart disease that are common in industrialized nations...
...restricting its grantees’ profits, and requiring that they distribute to developing countries, the Gates Foundation is lowering financial barriers that keep medicines like Edwards’ TB spray and Yale’s Zerit beyond the reach of the world’s impoverished...