China Direct-Acting HCV Drug Race Rapidly Gathering Pace
Executive Summary
After the recent approval of its first all-oral hepatitis C regimen, the China FDA is striving to approve within a year more direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapies to treat all genotypes of the disease, setting the stage for both multinational and domestic pharma firms to compete in the world’s largest HCV drug market.
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