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Access to medical supplies and devices —COVID-19 and medical monopoly

Access to existing medical technology, crucial to stemming spread of the novel coronavirus, is particularly lacking in the Global South due to monopoly control.

23/10/2020
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Discussions around access to potential vaccines for COVID-19 are widespread, particularly in the global South. Much less discussed is the lack of access to already existing medical technology crucial to stemming the spread of the novel coronavirus and assisting its most severely affected victims. The latter is the outcome of the monopoly control of medical technology — a phenomenon stretching at least as long as the monopoly of Big PHARMA — though much less understood.


 

Read the paper below.

Source: SouthViews, No. 208, 19 October 2020

South Centre


 


 

https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/209453
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