Ebook: The Development Dimension Coherence for Health : Innovation for New Medicines for Infectious Diseases.
Author: OECD
- Tags: Communicable diseases --Developing countries -- Congresses, Drug development -- Congresses, Pharmaceutical industry -- Congresses, Pharmaceutical policy -- Congresses, Pharmaceutical policy -- Developing countries -- Congresses, Communicable diseases -- Congresses, Business, Health, Social sciences, Population Characteristics, Sociology, Industry, International Cooperation, Infection, Therapeutic Uses, Socioeconomic Factors, Anti-Infective Agents, Developing Countries, Drug Industry, Communicable Diseases, Pharmaco
- Series: The development dimension Coherence for health
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- City: Paris
- Language: English
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In developing countries, 6 out of 10 people die from infectious diseases. Nearly 1 billion humans suffer from a neglected infectious disease, according to the World Health Organisation. Yet less than 1% of the new drugs placed on the market from 1975 to the turn of the century were developed for these diseases. This book looks at ways of improving the availability of medicines for infectious diseases through Read more...