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Children are dying. We need a worldwide medicines treaty to avoid further tragedies | Dinesh S Thakur and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu

Recent deaths linked to drugs made in India underline the need for a global framework for quality control and swift cross-border action when things go wrongIn the last six months, there have been four global alerts from the World Health Organization (W…

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‘I skip meals to make my insulin last’: the cost of diabetes in the global south

The three firms that control the insulin market are to cut costs in the US, but elsewhere users can spend all their pay to get the life-saving drug ‘I ration my insulin every month,” says Khushi Ahuja, a law student from Delhi who has type 1 diabetes a…

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India must act on drug adulteration – lives around the world are at stake

Disregard for manufacturing standards could ruin the country’s reputation as the ‘developing world’s pharmacy’ and risk wider problems globallyIndia’s reputation as the “pharmacy of the developing world”, built assiduously by the country’s pharmaceutic…

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Covid live news: vaccine passports set to be introduced in Northern Ireland; high cases across Europe

Ministers vote to introduce mandatory vaccine passports in Northern Ireland; Austria exceeds 14,000 new cases; Germany has 52,826 new cases; Hungary reports 10,265 infectionsEasing of New Zealand rules could lead to summer crisis, experts warnFauci: US…

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Local Covid vaccines fill gap as UN Covax scheme misses target

India, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed Covax programme falls behind.While western countries ro…

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Coronavirus treatments: the potential ‘game-changers’ in development

After positive clinical trials for antiviral drug Molnupiravir, it joins other medicines that have shown promiseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first clinical trial results showing a positive effect for a pill that can b…

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Covid vaccines: India export delay deals blow to poorer countries

Efforts in Africa and elsewhere hit by decision not to export Serum’s AstraZeneca jab until end of yearCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageVaccine programmes across Africa and much of the developing world will suffer big delays …

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