Quote:This is an older drug that is seldom used. It is used to treat people with <a class="bbc_url" href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis'>toxoplasmosis</a>. Look up the disease and see what the causes are (eating improperly cooked food and cat feces).


The cost increase is used to raise funds for a better alternative.

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.


A quick google search yields the following:


In the United States, as of 2015, with the acquisition of U.S. marketing of Daraprim tablets by Turing Pharmaceuticals, pyrimethamine has become a single-source and specialty pharmacy item, and the cost of pyrimethamine has increased. The cost of a monthly course for a person on 75 mg rose to about $75,000/month, from $13/tablet to $833/tablet, or $750 per tablet per a New York Times report from September 2015. Outpatients can no longer obtain pyrimethamine from their community pharmacy, but only through a single dispensing pharmacy, Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy, and institutions can no longer order from their general wholesaler, but have to set up an account with the Daraprim Direct program.


In India, multiple combinations of this tablet are available for a price ranging from U.S. $0.05–$0.10 each (3–7 rupees).


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Where does it say the cost increase is to find alternatives? How does that even make sense to you?


Furthermore:


It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system.


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It's essential for people with HIV. It's also anti malarial. Bottom line, your characteristic of it is competely wrong.


This is an example of greed. Plain and simple.

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