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Doctors have for the first time released details of their spending on a major clinical trial, demonstrating that the true cost of developing a medicine may be far less than the billions of dollars claimed by the pharmaceutical industry.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is challenging drug companies to be transparent about the cost of trials, which has always been shrouded in secrecy.

He added: “We encourage clinical trial sponsors and implementors to try our Transparency Core toolkit, and to build on it as a guide to facilitate the publication of cost data.

MSF’s paper, presented Thursday at a WHO conference on medicines pricing, showed it was possible to collect good data on spending in trials, Scourse said.

Although MSF’s trials took place in middle-income countries, the costs were not low, said Scourse, because they had to invest substantial sums to upgrade infrastructure – such as TB clinics – to be able to conduct high-quality research.

“The pharmaceutical industry invests around $200bn every year on research and development,” said James Anderson, IFPMA’s executive director of global health.

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