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Review
. 2015 Mar;11(3):189-94.
doi: 10.1038/nrneph.2015.6. Epub 2015 Feb 10.

Access to medications and conducting clinical trials in LMICs

Ikechi G Okpechi  1 , Charles R Swanepoel  1 , Francois Venter  2
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Access to medications and conducting clinical trials in LMICs

Ikechi G Okpechi et al. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

Access to essential medications is limited in many low-to-middle income countries (LMICs) and those that are available may be prohibitively expensive to the general population. Clinical trials have been suggested as an approach to improve drug access in LMICs but the number of trials conducted in these countries is small because of regulatory issues and a lack of infrastructure. In this article, Nature Reviews Nephrology asks three experts their opinions on how to improve drug access and increase the numbers of clinical trials conducted in LMICs.

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