Vital drugs are either not authorized or are deemed too expensive, as cases rise.
Rates of tuberculosis are on the rise in Europe, but countries are ill-equipped and lack access to the latest drugs targeting the worst strains.
Some patients are spending a year and a half in hospital isolation receiving old medicines instead of just six months of treatment at home, because countries do not have access to the most up-to-date therapies to cure people of the infectious disease.
In some EU countries, the latest medicines are either not authorized or are deemed too expensive to use. To effectively treat patients, the NGO Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) has stepped in to help in Poland and Slovakia.
Earlier this year, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (EDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Europe was stalling in its quest to suppress tuberculosis and could miss its 2030 targets to end the disease. The agencies caution that if Europe doesn’t get a grip on the rising rates of infection with the recommended cocktail of drugs, the gains made over the last decade could be lost.
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I want you see you develop any of these life saving drugs. How much would education cost? How much would a lab and resources cost?
If a publicly funded lab invents these cures then yes it should be open to the public
But if a private company does it, it belongs ti the private company.
Unless you don’t believe in private ownership?
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or to put it in other terms
there are people literally dying in Africa right now because of hunger. You could spend money and ship food to them to save their life but you don’t. Is it because you’re a cheapstake who doesn’t care for human life?
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