Majority won't have access to antivirals in pandemic but generic drugs could help prevent deaths
Friday, June 12, 2009 - 13:07
in Health & Medicine
Almost 90 per cent of the world's population will not have timely access to affordable supplies of vaccines and antiviral agents in the current influenza pandemic, but it is possible that inexpensive generic drugs that are readily available, even in developing countries, could save millions of lives.