PLOS “Speaking of Medicine”: FDA Voucher for Leishmaniasis Treatment: Can Both Patients and Companies Win?
Bernard Pécoul, executive director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), and Manica Balasegaram, executive director of the MSF Access Campaign, discuss how flaws in the FDA Priority Review Voucher (PRV) program have rewarded companies without consideration to patient access to treatments for neglected diseases and they call on Congress to “fix the PRV so that it truly incentivizes R&D, and does not simply reward the registration of an existing drug” (1/20).