The vaccine for the whole planet

On 30-10-2013, in Stockholm, he was honored before representatives of 73 developing countries and other donors, together with the World Health Organization-WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, Fondation Bill & Melinda Gates, other NGOs and companies producing vaccine.

Seth Berkley said: by focusing and ensure order in the global level, we are forced for vaccine manufacturers must compete with each other, and manage to be the best, cause the price is lowered.

For example, the price of a dose of vaccines prevent rotavirus, which causes diarrhea, has $ 3.49 years within Word to 1.19 dollars. Prevention of papillomavirus vaccines, cause uterine cancer, price from 13 down to 4.5 dollars. A minor economic miracle. Locate a doctor for this struggled to persuade the Government to always lack money, sponsors and NGOs, as well as the pharmaceutical laboratories, which never trusted each other.

No money for a child to middle-class Jewish life in New York, chemistry enthusiast since the age of 10, became home to the vaccine for the whole planet. Except when growing up Seth swimming and teaching chess to children poor in his area. And then do a physician in Jackson, Mississippi, and very admired Dr. Robert Smith: "a hero, in 1963 the first walk to accusations of ethnic discrimination victims in the hospital and medical care". The campaign in Africa, Brazil and Sri Lanka wraps has encouraged this adventurer, who also is a pilot, go to rảo across 35 countries to improve health for people in poverty.=