Priyam Lizmary Cherian
Yes, we can stop patents getting in the way of TB treatment
A day ahead of World TB Day, the Indian Patent Office rejected pharma giant Jannsen’s application for a patent extension on drug bedaquiline. If the patent had been extended, public and family budgets would have remained burdened by unjustifiably high costs of the drug
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