From promise to practice: a guide to developing pooled procurement mechanisms for medicines and vaccines

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Table 1 Category and number of participants in the study, N = 11

Fig. 1 Schematic representation of the developmental stages of pooled procurement mechanisms

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Table 2 Developmental stages of a pooled procurement mechanism

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The interview data generated and/or analyzed during the current research are not publicly available as individual privacy could be compromised. All other data is available in the public domain.