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WHO Aims To Secure Antiviral Drugs Cheaply
The New Paper
|October 20, 2021
Move is to ensure poorer countries get fair access to treatments and vaccines
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BRUSSELS A programme led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to ensure poorer countries get fair access to Covid-19 vaccines, tests and treatments aims to secure antiviral drugs for patients with mild symptoms for as little as US$10 (S$13.50) per course, according to a draft document seen by Reuters.
Merck’s experimental pill molnupiravir is likely to be one of the drugs. Other drugs to treat mild patients are being developed.
The document, which outlines the goals of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (Act-A) until next September, says the programme wants to deliver about one billion tests to poorer nations and procure drugs to treat up to 120 million patients globally, out of about 200 million new cases it estimates in the next 12 months.
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