KUALA LUMPUR: Following resistance by several developed countries at the World Health Assembly (WHA) to a drug price transparency resolution, of which Malaysia is a co-sponsor, 66 organisations from Africa have sent an open letter to the United Kingdom government demanding that it stop opposing the resolution.
In the letter addressed to Matthew Hancock at the Health and Social Care Department and Rory Stewart from the International Development Department in London Friday (May 24), the 66 civil society organisations working in sub-Saharan Africa said they strongly supported the resolution currently being negotiated at the WHA in Geneva, Switzerland.
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