Not to discount the significance of providing new treatments for things like malaria and sleeping sickness, but that's a pretty different category of problem al

Not to discount the significance of providing new treatments for things like malaria and sleeping sickness, but that's a pretty different category of problem altogether. The model described in that article is aimed at solving a different issue: providing medications for treating illnesses that are largely (though not exclusively) found in the developing world, and for which there is little investment from existing pharmaceutical R&D centers[0]. By contrast, Hepatitis C is the most deadly infectious disease in the US (and is comparably bad in Europe - arguably worse, actually due to inferior treatment options at the moment compared to the US). The cure for Hepatitis C came from a US-based company, out of research conducted on US patients and funded largely by the US pharmaceutical market. You wouldn't see groups like the DNDi tackling that kind of work, because they have vastly fewer resources than larger players do, and they ultimately wouldn't be able to compete, nor would they be able to establish distribution in the markets where they would need to have an impact[1]. Now that chronic Hepatitis C is a curable[2] disease, it's not surprising that other players will focus on providing cheaper alternatives to the treatment course, but again, that's a different problem from what the large pharmaceutical companies in the US and Europe solve. [0] The US is the largest of these, producing half of the world's R&D medical and pharmaceutical research, and Europe is another hub. China and India are the fastest growing, but have only been players on this scale in the last few years. [1] Producing the medication is, in some ways, the "easy" part - actually ensuring that it reaches the patients who need it is the really difficult part, and honestly the more impressive aspect of DNDi's sort of work. [2] Expensive, but curable