Funders Float ‘Natural Selection’ for Non-Profit Neglected Disease Drug Developers as Global Health Aid Dries Up

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   Health Policy Watch Switzerland indie

   Funders Float ‘Natural Selection’ for Non-Profit Neglected Disease Drug Developers as Global Health Aid Dries Up

   In the late 1990s, doctors treating sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies that is almost always fatal without treatment, still relied on melarsoprol, an arsenic-based drug that killed roughly one patient in 20. One patient given melarsoprol in 2003 later recalled the…

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