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A Trade Barrier to Defeating AIDS

By TINA ROSENBERG July 26, 2011 Earlier this month, the patent pool received its first donation of rights from a pharmaceutical manufacturer, Gilead Sciences.  It is an important step  — but the terms Gilead negotiated are also confirmation of a … Continue reading

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The Implications of the Medicines Patent Pool and Gilead Licenses on Access to Treatment

Briefing Paper by ITPC & I-MAK On 12 July, 2011 the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead) announced they had entered into a licensing agreement to improve access to anti-retrovirals (ARVs) and Hepatitis B (HBV) treatment in … Continue reading

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Corporate Self-Interest And Strategic Choices: Gilead Licenses To Medicines Patent Pool

Published on 21 July 2011 @ 8:50 pm Intellectual Property Watch By Prof. Brook K. Baker, Health GAP Summary: Despite some important advances to the scope of its previous purely voluntary licenses on key antiretroviral medicines, Gilead’s licenses with the UNITAID-sponsored … Continue reading

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Open Letter from Thai Civil Society: One Step forward, Two Steps back: the Agreement between the Medicine Patent Pool and Gilead Sciences, Inc

On behalf of the Thai Network of People Living with HIV & AIDS, pharmaceutical academics and civil society organisations working on access to medicines for all in Thailand, we wish to raise our grave concerns regarding the agreement between the … Continue reading

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Medicine Patent Pool’s agreement with Gilead: Is it really a fair deal?

Recently, Medicine Patent Pool signed its first agreement with pharmaceutical company Gilead for the production of the HIV medicines tenofovir, emtricitabine, cobicistat, and elvitegravir as well as a combination of these products in a single pill known as the “Quad.” Click … Continue reading

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