The same essential drugs, vastly different prices across the globe. A complex investigation on the affordability of medicines.

From Weekly Filet #, in June 2015.

11 days’ wages to buy an asthma inhaler

11 days’ wages to buy an asthma inhaler

http://medicamentalia.org/en/prices/

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