Pharma-Brief Spezial (4)

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Whereas HIV/Aids is regarded as a controllable chronic disease in the western world, the situation for large parts of the world´s population is dramatic.

Public funding often plays a key role in research and development (R & D) of new medicines. But innovative drugs are often not affordable for people in poor countries.

The present booklet examines tuberculosis as a social disease around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century and today.

Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common infectious disease in the world. One third of the world population – around two billion people – are carriers of the mycobacterium tuberculosis.