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Legal bid to make medicine affordable

groundbreaking

IN what could be a groundbreaking case for affordable access to medicines in South Africa, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders Southern Africa (MSF), have intervened as friends of the court in a legal challenge relating to access to a lifesaving drug to treat cystic fibrosis, called Trikafta.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a severe

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