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The goal of this chapter is to examine the Health Impact Fund, a proposal aimed at solving the problem of access to pharmaceuticals for the global poor, focusing on its potential implications vis-à-vis the problem of corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. One set of questions concerns the extent to which the Health Impact Fund can be expected to help lessen or prevent the sorts of corruption that presently plague our system of pharmaceutical development. The second set of questions concerns the extent to which the sorts of structures and processes that are set up for the Health Impact Fund—making assessments of the impact of a given medicine on global disease burden—would themselves be vulnerable to corruption.
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Gifford, F. (2020). The Health Impact Fund and the Problem of Corruption in the Global Pharmaceutical Sector. In: Çalıyurt, K. (eds) Integrity, Transparency and Corruption in Healthcare & Research on Health, Volume I. Accounting, Finance, Sustainability, Governance & Fraud: Theory and Application. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1424-1_2
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