TB and inequality: How race, caste, and class impact access to medicines

The elimination of TB cannot be achieved if medicines are locked in a “patent panoply,” according to Indian author and journalist Vidya Kishnan.

Speaking to Garry Aslanyan on the most recent episode of Dialogues, a new series from the Global Health Matters podcast, the author of “Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History” said that “everything that happened in COVID has been happening for decades with TB.

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Source: Health Policy Watch

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By Maayan Hoffman

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, 8:05 p.m.

Last updated: Dec. 23, 2023, 2:09 a.m.

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