Pfizer’s CEO said Wednesday that he “wouldn’t worry much” about a recent monkeypox outbreak that has seen cases surge in non-endemic countries.
World's poorest countries to receive medicines at cost
Also included in the list are the company's Covid-19 treatment Paxlovid and breast cancer drug Ibrance, as well as pneumonia vaccine Prevnar 13, rheumatoid arthritis drug Xeljanz and cancer treatments Xalkori and Inlyta.Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Through the program, Pfizer said it aims to improve the ease and speed of access to vital medicines for poorer nations.
"Today we are going to achieve that," he said, adding that shareholders"should think that we are doing the right thing."According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it can typically take four to seven years longer for new treatments to become available in low-income countries than in advanced economies — if they become available at all.
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