2021 Access to Medicine Index: No profit, no pharma?
By DW
30 January 2021 |
1:34 pm
A new pharmaceutical company ranking has said the industry is slowly improving access to medicine in low and middle-income countries. But it only mobilized on COVID once the pandemic became a threat to rich countries.
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