A RECENT letter by the Malaysian Health Coalition (MHC) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) has highlighted once again how people living in low- and middle-income countries like Malaysia are frequently denied access to affordable, life-saving medicines.
By excluding Malaysia from its voluntary licensing agreements, the biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has denied Malaysians access to affordable generic versions of remdesivir, a potential treatment for Covid-19, thus forcing us to pay whatever price it charges.
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