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28 April 2016Africa

Syringes delivered to GSK doors in pneumonia vaccine row

Advocate group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) delivered a suitcase full of syringes to the London headquarters of pharmaceutical company GSK in protest at the price of a pneumonia vaccine.

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