South Africa, Colombia and Others Are Fighting Drugmakers Over Access to TB and HIV Drugs
November 27, 2023

(Associated Press) – South Africa, Colombia and other countries that lost out in the global race for coronavirus vaccines are taking a more combative approach towards drugmakers and pushing back on policies that deny cheap treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV. Experts see it as a shift in how such countries deal with pharmaceutical behemoths and say it could trigger more efforts to make lifesaving medicines more widely available. (Read More)