Big firms slash drug prices for Uganda

Lots of pricey medical drugs will be sold on the cheap sooner rather than later in Africa and Asia after major international pharmaceutical companies decided to slash prices for low income countries.

A number of international drug companies have announced that they’ll be substantial cuts in prices they charge. In Africa, this should mean better access to those drugs and a reduction in deaths. One of the subsidised vaccines already on sale fights a form of diarrhoea which is lethal to more

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