Medicines Patent Pool
Company Description
The Medicines Patent Pool was created to improve the health of people living in low- and middle-income countries. Our goal is to increase access to quality, safe, efficacious, more appropriate and affordable medicines, focussing on HIV/AIDS.
We do this by negotiating with patent holders to share their intellectual property with the Pool, and then licensing it to other producers to facilitate the production of affordable generic medicines well-adapted for use in resource-poor settings.
In addition to reducing the prices of medicines, the Pool aims to facilitate the development of HIV medicines that are better-adapted for resource-limited settings: examples include medicines that do not require refrigeration, special formulations for children, and ‘ fixed-dose combinations’ that combine multiple medicines into one pill and ease treatment for patients and treatment providers alike.
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