Find out the real cost to manufacture...it obviously isn’t 6 cents...there is a “UN Critical Mandate” (price manipulation) involved, so I would imagine that “rich” US patients are subsidizing the 3rd world (including Canada). There are also alternatives for about $13.00 a dose. ( https://www.goodrx.com/ivermectin?drug-name=ivermectin ) Albendazole is a highly specialized drug with a very limited US market...perhaps that is why generic manufacturers haven’t jumped in? Or the manufacturing cost is higher than I think, making it unprofitable for the generic manufacturers. Anyway a bad example to tar pharmaceutical companies with...ironically it is sold/made by the company that supplies the cheap generic for “Epipen”. http://www.amedrapharma.com/amedra-pharmaceuticals/
I am so happy that you made that post, because “the rich America subsidizing the rest of the poor countries” scenario occurred to me very quickly. Now you have given me the proof.
But, here is the problem with that gambit:
1. Why do poor Americans (leave me out) have to subsidize Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, Australians—to say nothing about the rich potentates and all their friends and relatives all around the world.
2. In other words, if the UN wants to help the poor in the world, why don’t they pony up the subsidy and provide it directly to the needy? That’s about the only legitimate job they have to do.