The indifferent industry

This is all the more grim since many of these medicines were tested on African volunteers – the very people who will never see the drugs they helped develop. As a consequence of this situation, millions of Africans in despair are tempted to rely on quack remedies such as pesticide injections, Chinese vitamins that result in kidney damage, and a plethora of immune boosters advertised to cure Aids.
Strategies to break the monopoly of Big Pharma and their expensive brand cures depend largely on the pressure exerted by civil society groups to allow the production of generic versions of essential drugs.

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