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More Big Pharma Players Have Access Plans For Poorer Countries

GSK Tops Access to Medicine Index Again

 
• By Kevin Grogan

The notion that pharma R&D caters for western populations first and only much later are the fruits of that research made available for low-income countries is slowly but surely changing, according to a high-profile review of access to drugs.

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R&D access plans can bridge the healthcare gap between rich and poor • Source: Shutterstock

Pharmaceutical companies "continue to inch forward" when it comes to embedding access to new drugs in low- and middle-income countries into their governance structures, R&D processes and monitoring efforts, according to the latest report from the Access to Medicine Foundation.

While the problem of getting medicines to poorer countries is again in the spotlight with the struggle to supply enough COVID-19 vaccines, there has been a shift to systematic access planning in their R&D strategies by some pharma companies that

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