Countering Drug Resistance in the Developing World
October 13, 2009
Drug resistance is outpacing the discovery of new medicines, undermining the ability to treat infectious diseases in developing countries—and in wealthy countries, too. In a new working paper commissioned to inform the recommendations of a CGD working group, Prashant Yadav shows how changes in supply-chain business practices could slow the emergence and transmission of drug-resistant pathogens.