Liam Dee died from a rare and aggressive cancer last Nov. 10. Adonation screening form from that date says his tissues were declined due to his “homosexual status.”
Last July, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared mpox, also known as monkeypox, to be an “extraordinary” situation that qualified as a global crisis.
The memo, obtained by the NDP through the access-to-information law and shared with The Canadian Press, is a status report from the acting chair of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board to the health minister about obstacles they were facing to lowering the price of drugs.
Access to the new monoclonal antibody for prophylactic treatment will probably be tightly controlled, but parents may ask for it after an early RSV season last year.