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The cost of HIV medicines is rising all the time, meaning that many people with HIV will not be able to afford life-saving medicines. Unless……
There is a way to produce new drugs at affordable prices: Join us in pushing for the patent pool. This way drug companies share their drug patents with the pool, so they still get their royalities... but at the same time other companies, such as generic drug manufacturers and research institutions, can get hold of these patents to make cheaper drugs. Everyone wins.
To find out what happened over the course of the Make It Happen Campaign, how many people joined, what countries participated, what events were held, and what the drug companies said, and more, click here.
Latest News
Medicines Patent Pool clears last procedural hurdle and gets ready to open its doors (June 23, 2010)
Medicines Patent Pool moves closer to reality (April 23, 2010)
UNITAID Board still discussing finer details of the Patent Pool Entity (February 9, 2010)
Over 300,000 messages of support help realise creation of UNITAID’s patent pool (December 16, 2009)
Competition between different companies is the best way to make drugs more affordable. You can make sure competition happens by using the law to limit or overcome the barriers that stand in the way of generic competition; companies can also help build a new way to create drugs at affordable prices: by supporting the patent pool.
| AnimationsWatch these animations that explain how a patent pool could deliver the medicines we need. |
| VideosWatch these videos to hear from AIDS patients and their needs for improved access to HIV medications and better understand the need for a patent pool. |
Click here to learn more about the companies, the drugs they produce, and why we want them in the pool.
To see the list of combination therapies a patent pool could help produce, click here.
Find out more how drug resistance develops and the need for newer drugs, click here for more information.
For more background on patents, the problems they cause, and how they can be overcome, click here.
Find out about other ways of overcoming patent barriers to medicines, click here.
View previously featured news and information on patent pools here.
Last updated: 27 April 2010
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