PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (Apr 2019)

Broken drug markets in infectious diseases: Opportunities outside the private sector?

  • Jonathan D Alpern,
  • Stephen J Dunlop,
  • William M Stauffer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007190
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 4
p. e0007190

Abstract

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A subset of anti-infective drugs are increasingly unavailable for patients in the United States due to pricing or withdrawal from the market. Timely market solutions are needed. We assert that solutions to ensure access to some essential anti-infective agents lie outside capital markets and that public-private partnerships may be the most viable solution.