KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has received a boost from an international medical humanitarian organisation for its effort to gain access to generic versions of a Hepatitis C drug.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad (pic) in a tweet yesterday thanked Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), known in English as Doctors Without Borders, for the support and solidarity for Malaysia, which has been facing continuous pressure from pharmaceutical companies and their political allies ever since it used Compulsory Licensing (CL) to gain access to the drug in 2017.
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