Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Medicines Strategy: Discussion
Dr. Kieran Harkin:
Yes, there is the TB Alliance, while the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative is a public private partnership supported partially by Irish Aid and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Public private partnerships, therefore, have been developed in areas of neglected diseases where there is not much public interest and where there will not be much great return. The initiative has developed new tuberculosis drugs and an effective treatment for Chagas disease. There is also a new malaria-----