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It creates a huge barrier to access to medicines for two billion people and pushes 100 million people into extreme poverty every year.
Most crucially, it is increasingly difficult to balance the goals of ensuring patient access to effective medicines, managing rising health-care expenditure, and incentivizing innovation.
And in Europe between 2000 and 2014, 51% of newly approved drugs were modified versions of existing medicines, and thus offered no additional health benefits.
For NCDs, companies like Novartis, Pfizer, and the Indian drug maker Cipla have made efforts to bring affordable medicines to patients in Africa.
The program reaches more than 45,000 local doctors through a network of 90 medical distributors, ensuring that medicines are available in 28,000 of India’s remotest pharmacies.
The program is also flexible, adapting medicines, packaging, and training according to the different health and cultural needs of India’s diverse communities.
This is helpful when people live at the margin – where cutting spending means foregoing food or medicines.
They designed planes, computers, and furniture, figured out how to lay out an assembly line, helped to make new cars faster and refrigerators more efficient, pushed the limits of computer chips, and invented new medicines.
Once an HIV-infected individual tests positive, achieving the second 90% (AVR treatment) depends mainly on funding and staffing; with a sufficient health budget, medicines can be made available for all infected individuals.
It is critical that we find new sources of funding to support the academic researchers and small companies whose discoveries are laying the foundations for tomorrow’s medicines.
The Review is studying ways to align financial incentives for developing new antimicrobial drugs more closely with these medicines’ true social value.
But while leaders generally agree on the need to invest in solutions, we have surprisingly few TB medicines to show for our quarter-century of effort.
The disease perpetuates poverty in developing countries, because patients and their families must routinely spend up to half of their income buying medicines and managing care.
The goal should be to ensure that medicines are accessible and affordable for anyone who needs them; this includes high-risk populations such as health-care workers, as well as people living with HIV/AIDS, for whom TB is a leading cause of death.
For the first time, he would have sufficient staff, medicines, and training to put thousands on ARV therapy.
In poor countries like Nigeria, the battle against AIDS demands an array of medical personnel, clinics, and medicines that simply do not exist.
Revolution and Reaction in BiopharmingSTANFORD – Obtaining medicines from plants is not new.
Essential medicines and materials are in short supply: water purification tablets, chlorine disinfectant, antibiotics, jerry cans, soap, water cisterns, and construction material for latrines.
It is a rule that applies to the medicines used by patients worldwide many billions of times a day.
Consider, similarly, the death and illness caused by malaria, which can be reduced very sharply through the use of mosquito nets for beds and anti-malaria medicines.
Yet bed nets and anti-malaria medicines do not reach the people who need them, because the people who need them are too poor.
The key is practicality, boldness, and, most importantly, a commitment by those who are better off to volunteer their time and money to bring practical help–in the form of high-yield seeds, fertilizers, medicines, bed nets, drinking wells, and materials to build school rooms and clinics—to the world’s poorest people.
Although expenditures have increased, the number of new medicines resulting from human-genome sequencing has not.
Scientists believed that the ability to visualize and understand human biology at a more detailed level would lead to many new medicines.
And so it has – but without increasing the number of new medicines.
Prior to this molecular revolution, scientists discovered medicines by randomly evaluating different chemicals against phenotypes – an organism’s observable characteristics – in authentic biological systems, such as animals or cells.
The July issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery analyzed how first-in-class medicines – those drugs that successfully established a new class of medicines – were discovered.
Despite the emphasis on target-based drug discovery, phenotypic screening produced the lion’s share of the first-in-class small-molecule medicines approved between 1999 and 2008 – 28 phenotypic medicines versus 17 target-based drugs.
Unfortunately, it appears that this new light, in most cases, is too dim to illuminate the molecular details of the dynamic human biological machine with sufficient specificity to rationalize the design of new medicines.
The random phenotypic process, though less efficient, will ultimately identify medicines that are effective and work to repair disease.
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