Can Bill Gates Make Weight Loss Drugs Accessible Everywhere?
Bill Gates and the Pan American Health Organization are both interested in making weight-loss drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro more accessible in lower-income countries, the global health figures told Reuters.
In separate interviews, Microsoft founder Gates and PAHO director Dr Jarbas Barbosa said they recognized the unequal availability of the highly effective but expensive treatments.
About 70% of the roughly one billion people with obesity live in low and middle-income countries which may struggle to meet the costs of tackling the epidemic and associated health problems like diabetes and heart disease.
Excerpted from Reuters
