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A new drug that may help lots of people will apparently be more expensive than it should
Pretomanid, developed by the non-profit TB Alliance, offers a new, safer and more effective treatment for tuberculosis. The non-profit is organized to improve access and affordability of life-saving treatments, but has currently only allowed one drug manufacturer to produce pretomanid. Doctors without Borders fears high prices will limit availability.
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"In all of the lower-income countries, we will be encouraging other manufacturers, generic manufacturers, to get into the market to get competition to drive down the price as well," he says.
But Lynch of Doctors Without Borders thinks there is a better way to keep these drugs affordable: baking a low-price requirement into the TB Alliance's licensing agreement with Mylan, which the organizations have not disclosed.
"What works even better than competition which, by the way, will take a while is you set the price reasonably low to begin with," she says.
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