A drug company, Aventis Pasteur, has donated 80 million doses that it has kept frozen since 1958.
Since 1998, it has donated one billion doses of albendazole, a worm-killing drug, to prevent the grotesquely swollen legs and scrotums of elephantiasis, or lymphatic filariasis.
Company officials and patient advocates say that some women, who tend to have less severe cases of Fabry, have donated their doses to their sons who inherited the disease.
We are lucky because WHO donated 39,000 doses of ACT, we just received it last two weeks.
In May 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) donated 10,000 doses of megulamine antimonate (85 mg/mL; 5-mL ampoules).
Serum Institute of India (SII) has donated 5.5 million doses of the measles-rubella vaccine to Gavi to support the Tanzanian campaign.
The Gavi Alliance donated 128,500 doses of the rotavirus vaccine worth over 2 Million $US, ensuring over 100,000 children under one access this lifesaving vaccine.
New York/Geneva, 12 November 2002 -- With West African countries in the midst of vaccinating millions of children against polio, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, Aventis Pasteur, has donated 30 million doses of oral polio vaccine to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
West Africa launches final assault on polio New York/Geneva, 12 November 2002 -- With West African countries in the midst of vaccinating millions of children against polio, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, Aventis Pasteur, has donated 30 million doses of oral polio vaccine to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Even the World Health Organisation, a United Nations agency not known for cosiness with the pharmaceutical industry, applauded GSK's decision in June to donate 50m doses of its new flu vaccine to be held in an emergency stockpile.
