South Africa: TAC Calls for Roche to Drop Price of Cancer Drug

7 February 2017

Activists say that with generic competition trastuzumab could be R3,500 per course instead of the current price of over R200,000

Tulani Daki cried as he described to hundreds of protesters outside the Johannesburg office of pharmaceutical company Roche how his mother Topeka Daki died of cancer.

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