For the millions with hepatitis C who can’t afford to pay for expensive medicines, lifesaving treatment remains a right denied. If treatment activists have anything to say about it, that won’t be true for long.
Despite advances in medical science, affordable safe and effective medicines remain inaccessible to billions of people worldwide. The Open Society Foundations support efforts to increase access to essential medicines for people in low-resource countries, especially for poor and marginalized populations.
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story reports on the vote in the US House of Representatives to pass CISPA, a draft law that is critiqued for attacking fundamental privacy rights.
Amidst austerity, many Europeans are directly paying for some health care for the first time. The EU should not demand terms with India that keep medicines costly across the globe.
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story draws attention to clauses in the current draft of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired that make it unworkable.
