In an surprising turnabout, Johnson & Johnson introduced it will not implement any of its patents for a key tuberculosis drugs in 134 low- and middle-income nations, the second time in current weeks {that a} producer has agreed to widen entry to merchandise wanted to fight the infectious illness.
The transfer comes after the well being care large has lately confronted accelerating calls for to change its pricing and patenting insurance policies for the drug, which is named bedaquiline and is taken into account the spine in remedy used to fight multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Advocacy teams have argued J&J was stopping entry in nations with the very best charges of the infectious illness.
A sustained marketing campaign concentrating on J&J was constructing for years, however took a brand new flip this previous summer time when novelist and social media influencer John Inexperienced posted a video on YouTube that criticized the corporate for putting untold numbers of sufferers in jeopardy. The hassle, which was coordinated with completely different teams, together with Companions in Well being and Docs With out Borders, positioned J&J on the defensive.
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