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How can we get pharma companies to do more for global health? Try ranking them

  • Written by Nicole Hassoun, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York

The World Health Organization reports that a third of the world’s population cannot access important medicines for some of the world’s most devastating diseases, like malaria and tuberculosis.

There are many reasons these drugs are out of reach of so many people, but the fact that few medicines to treat diseases like malaria and...

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