World’s poorest countries can improve access to medicines through local production, says United Nations

World’s poorest countries can improve access to medicines through local production, says United Nations

John Zarocostas, BMJ

Local production of pharmaceuticals in some poor African and Asian countries, such as Ethiopia, Uganda, and Bangladesh, has the potential to improve access to essential drugs for many of the one billion people who live in the world’s least developed countries, says a United Nations expert report.

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