Sanders press­es phar­ma lead­ers to change stance on Pan­dem­ic Ac­cord pro­pos­als

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is call­ing on glob­al phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal lead­ers to get be­hind pro­pos­als laid out in a World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion-led glob­al pan­dem­ic pre­pared­ness agree­ment that’s near­ing com­ple­tion.

On Thurs­day, Sanders wrote to the In­ter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Man­u­fac­tur­ers and As­so­ci­a­tions, a glob­al in­dus­try group led by Pfiz­er CEO Al­bert Bourla and David Red­dy, the group’s di­rec­tor gen­er­al. Sanders, who helms the Sen­ate HELP Com­mit­tee and has made pres­sur­ing drug­mak­ers a cor­ner­stone of his po­lit­i­cal and pol­i­cy ef­forts, urged the group to do more to make sure treat­ments are ac­ces­si­ble.

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