Jorge Bermudez

Jorge Bermudez is senior sesearcher at the National School of Public Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Ministry of Health, Brazil. He was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines and served as executive director of UNITAID in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2007 to 2011.

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In this April 16, 2020 photo, Jonas Sena, suspected of suffering from COVID-19 disease, waits on a stretcher to be allowed in the 28 de Agosto hospital in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. Manaus’ health care system, already strained before the coronavirus crisis, is buckling under the current onslaught of coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

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With Patents on Coronavirus Medicines, International Drug Companies Will Decide Whether Brazilians Live or Die

Jorge Bermudez, Achal Prabhala

- May 7, 2020

U.S. and European drug companies will hold monopoly power over coronavirus medicines for years — straining health care systems of countries like Brazil.

Jorge Bermudez

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