Economic and Social Research Council
Increase in drug development for killer diseases hampered by poverty in developing countries
Published in Pharma Law Weekly, September 26th, 2006
A recent report shows that drug development for killer diseases such as HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Chagas and Sleeping Sickness has increased in recent years despite the fact that these diseases mainly affect the poor in developing countries. Researchers argue that the rate of development of drugs (and of some vaccines and diagnostics) would increase if more incentives were created using patent rights and providing guarantees to purchase drugs for the poor as they are developed.
The report (The New Landscape of Neglected Disease Drug Development) by Mary Moran and colleagues at the Pharmaceutical Research and Development Policy Group, The George Institute, argues that...
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Source: Pharma Law Weekly (2006-09-26)
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