Inequities in access to essential medicines and global shortages
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Drug shortages - from antibiotics to vital cancer drugs - have grown into a global concern, and the unavailability of these medicines hits lower-income countries hardest. In this episode of Let's talk cancer, Cary Adams together with Hans Hogerzeil, formerly of WHO, and Charles Gore of Medicines Patent Pool, explains the reasons behind this, and ways to ensure that everyone receives the medicines they need, when they need them.
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