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After Decades of Pressure, US Drugmaker J&J Gives Up Patent on Life-Saving TB Drug

This move can lead to the entry of many manufacturers of bedaquiline, thereby reducing the exorbitant price which many governments currently find difficult to afford for all of their patients, say activists.

https://thewire.in/health/after-decades-of-pressure-us-drugmaker-jj-gives-up-patent-on-life-saving-tb-drug

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After Decades of Pressure, US Drugmaker J&J Gives Up Patent on Life-Saving TB Drug

This move can lead to the entry of many manufacturers of bedaquiline, thereby reducing the exorbitant price which many governments currently find difficult to afford for all of their patients, say activists.

The Wire