Woman fights for ‘miracle’ cystic fibrosis pill costing R5m to be produced cheaper

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Cheri Nel seeks a judgment that will allow compulsory licensing of Trikafta, a drug invented and patented by Vertex Pharmaceuticals which costs about R5.7m per year, per patient.

A South African woman living with cystic fibrosis has approached the high court, sitting as the commissioner of patents, to fight the inequitable monopoly of an expensive medication hailed as the “miracle” drug invented by an American pharmaceutical company...From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.

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