Around the world, governments fund critically important medical research and development using public money — including to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Publicly funded research has led to dramatic healthcare innovations, but unfortunately, most countries rarely demand that the resulting health innovations be safeguarded…
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomes Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) announcement to reduce the price of its tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline to USD$1.50 per day. Governments must now urgently scale up the use of the treatment…
Five years of civil war have left Yemen decimated since March 2015, where children have become the most vulnerable collateral damage in a war fought by adults. The onset of COVID-19 in Yemen means they face a pandemic with alarming shortages in…
