Several pharmaceutical companies sponsored production and hospitality of this year's immunisation conference. Please provide full disclosure of sponsorship and clarify whether the companies involved approached PHW or whether PHW sought sponsorship directly.
Please also can you provide details of sponsorship for the past few years back as far as 2019?
Clarification:
I simply mean please provide full details of sponsorship money received in the form of names of all companies concerned and total amounts that each company provided.
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Please see below the several pharmaceutical companies which sponsored the Welsh Immunisation Conference (WIC). They sponsored the event in the form of funding towards the production and hospitality, but did not have any involvement or influence on the agenda or content.
The sponsors of the WIC 2024 and the amounts contributed were:
CSL Seqirus - £2000
MSD - £2000
Sanofi - £2400
GSK - £2000
Pfizer - £2000
The sponsors of the WIC 2023 and the amounts contributed were:
AstraZeneca - £2,000
GSK - £2,000
MSD - £2,000
Pfizer - £1,500
Sanofi - £2,000
Seqirus - £2,000
The sponsors of the WIC 2019 and the amounts contributed were:
AstraZeneca - £1,500
GSK - £2,000
MSD - £2,000
Seqirus - £2,000
Pfizer - £1,000
The pharmaceutical companies were approached by PHW as they have sponsored WIC in previous years. Regards the last few years, WIC took place in 2024, 2023 and 2019, but didn’t take place in 2020, 2021 or 2022 due to the pandemic.
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