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Medicines Patent Pool: Industry's Toe Still in the Water

By William Looney | Published: May 13, 2013
At a time when Big Pharma is struggling with new business models geared to the demands of a changing marketplace, the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is offering a way forward through voluntary licensing and patent deals that it insists will deliver what the drug majors say they want: more innovation; better market access; and the [...]
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Affordable Access to HIV Meds on the Way

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: October 1, 2010
UNITAID’s Medicines Patent Pool seeks to bring costly HIV/AIDS treatments and other essential drugs to low-income countries by requiring patent-holders to license their technologies to generics manufacturers. Will pledges of support from the NIH bring some of these patent-holders back to the negotiating table? A new way for patients to have access to affordable HIV and [...]
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