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Editorial
. 2025 Nov 11:391:e086516.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086516.

Policies to promote affordability and access across the life cycle of costly new drugs

Krista Kruja  1 , Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz  2 , Michael M Hopkins  3 , Bettina Ryll  4   5 , Zoltan Kalo  6   7 , Suerie Moon  8
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Editorial

Policies to promote affordability and access across the life cycle of costly new drugs

Krista Kruja et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Strategic collaboration among countries and sectors on policies that prioritise equity throughout the full medicine life cycle could make innovative therapies more affordable and accessible globally, argue Krista Kruja and colleagues

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following: KK, JMF, MH, ZK, and SM received financial support from WHO Europe to prepare the Oslo Medicines Initiative Technical Reports. BR established the Melanoma Patient Network Europe, the activities of which are financed by balanced support from diverse pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies. In the past two years, BR has received consultancy fees from Illumina, MSD Sweden, Novartis, Roche, and Sobi.

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