Chances are you’ll live much longer than your ancestors thanks to a treatment developed by a drug company. Unfortunately, not everyone benefits equally. That’s because there is no guarantee curing a deadly ailment that primarily afflicts poorer patients – such as dengue fever and malaria – will pay off for the drugmaker.
This puts us all at risk, argues James Leahy, a chemistry professor at the University of South Florida. The good news is that nonprofit ventures are starting to fill this gap, and their efforts “could prove paramount to the survival of the human species,” he explains.
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Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
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James Leahy, University of South Florida
There's a big market for new treatments for TB, malaria and other ailments. But most of these diseases afflict low-income people unable to pay for medicine.
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