Patent pooling to increase access to essential medicines

Affiliations

¹ Medicines Patent Pool, 7 Rue de Varembé, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
² Division of Pharmacology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
³ Netherlands Antibiotic Development Platform, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁴ Essential Medicines and Health Products Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Hematology-Oncology Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America.

Esteban Burrone et al. Bull World Health Organ. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 1;97(8):575-577.

doi: 10.2471/BLT.18.229179. Epub 2019 Jun 11.

¹ Medicines Patent Pool, 7 Rue de Varembé, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
² Division of Pharmacology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
³ Netherlands Antibiotic Development Platform, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁴ Essential Medicines and Health Products Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Hematology-Oncology Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America.

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